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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2004
Applicant:
Huseyin Tek, Princeton, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Huseyin Tek, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/42 (2006.01); G06K 9/44 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
We propose local watershed operators for the segmentation of structures, such as medical structures, from an image. A watershed transform is a technique for partitioning an image into many regions while substantially retaining edge information. The proposed watershed operators are a computationally efficient local implementation of watersheds, which can be used as an operator in other segmentation techniques, such as seeded region growing, region competition and markers-based watershed segmentation.