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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2002
Applicants:
Ernst Klotz, Uttenreuth, DE;
Matthias Niethammer, Moehrendorf, DE;
Stefan Schaller, Fuerth, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for image processing proceeding from a computed tomography (CT) image of a lung as an original image that is registered using a contrast agent, pulmonary parenchyma pixels are determined, the pulmonary parenchyma pixels are presented in false colors, and the remaining image regions are presented in the gray scale values of the original image.