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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2001
Osamu Ozaki, Amagasaki, JP;
Osamu Ozaki, Amagasaki, JP;
Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide more accurate ribcage boundary information and landmark information, the size of a searching ROI which is mapped on a digital chest image is decided, the ROI is set on the image, an image existing within the region that is set on the image is enhanced, a profile of pixel values existing within the region is obtained, and the obtained profile is analyzed so that candidate points for a ribcage boundary are obtained. The deciding, setting, enhancing, obtaining, and analyzing operations are repeated until a center of each searching ROI advances immediately before a given search limit. As a result, a series of candidate points for the ribcage boundary is provided.