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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2003
Burak Acar, Bebek, TR;
Christopher F. Beaulieu, Los Altos, CA (US);
David S. Paik, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sandy A. Napel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
R. Brooke Jeffrey, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Burak Acar, Bebek, TR;
Christopher F. Beaulieu, Los Altos, CA (US);
David S. Paik, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sandy A. Napel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
R. Brooke Jeffrey, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An automatic method for the registration of prone and supine computed tomographic colonography data is provided. The method improves the radiologist's overall interpretation efficiency as well as provides a basis for combining supine/prone computer-aided detection results automatically. The method includes determining (centralized) paths or axes of the colon from which relatively stationary points of the colon are matched for both supine and prone positions. Stretching and/or shrinking of either the supine or prone path perform registration of these points. The matching and registration occurs in an iterative and recursive manner and is considered finished based on one or more decision criteria.