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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2020
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
University of Pittsburgh—of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Tejas Sudharshan Mathai, Seattle, WA (US);
John Galeotti, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Vijay Saradhi Gorantla, Winston Salem, NC (US);
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for segmenting vessels in an ultrasound image. The method includes detecting edges of a vessel in the ultrasound image; detecting a vessel contour of the vessel in the ultrasound image based on the detected edges and a distance regularized level set evolution; and tracking the vessel contour with a Kalman Filter.