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Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 12, 2020
Applicants:

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

University of Pittsburgh—of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Inventors:

Tejas Sudharshan Mathai, Seattle, WA (US);

John Galeotti, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Vijay Saradhi Gorantla, Winston Salem, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/149 (2017.01); A61B 6/50 (2024.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/149 (2017.01); A61B 6/504 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01);
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.


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