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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2005
Gregory G. Slabaugh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Gozde Unal, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Jason Jenn-kwei Tyan, Princeton, NJ (US);
Gregory G. Slabaugh, Princeton, NJ (US);
Gozde Unal, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Jason Jenn-Kwei Tyan, Princeton, NJ (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for three dimensional image segmentation of a volume of interest includes providing a three dimensional image of the volume of interest, providing an initial polyhedron having a plurality of mesh vertices within the three dimension image and determining an image-based speed at each vertex of the polyhedron using an ordinary differential equation (ODE) that describes the vertex motion of the polyhedron. The method further includes determining a regularization term at each vertex of the polyhedron, updating the plurality of mesh vertices of the polyhedron, integrating the image-based speed of each vertex over a face of the polyhedron, and determining an output polyhedron approximating a shape of the volume of interest.