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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2002
Hiroyuki Yoshida, Chicago, IL (US);
Abraham Dachman, Chicago, IL (US);
Janne Nappi, Chicago, IL (US);
Peter Maceneaney, Chicago, IL (US);
David Rubin, Chicago, IL (US);
Yoshitaka Masutani, Tokyo, JP;
LI Lan, Naperville, IL (US);
Hiroyuki Yoshida, Chicago, IL (US);
Abraham Dachman, Chicago, IL (US);
Janne Nappi, Chicago, IL (US);
Peter Maceneaney, Chicago, IL (US);
David Rubin, Chicago, IL (US);
Yoshitaka Masutani, Tokyo, JP;
Li Lan, Naperville, IL (US);
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product for identifying at least one three-dimensionally extended lesion within a volumetric region encompassing an inner surface, an outer surface, and intervening tissue of a target organ. The method includes: (1) generating a set of voxels representing a total scanned volume from a set of cross-sectional images of the target organ; (2) performing segmentation to extract a set of voxels representing the volumetric region from the set of voxels representing the total scanned volume; (3) detecting a set of candidate lesions based on geometric feature values of each voxel in the set of voxels representing the volumetric region; and (4) selecting the at least one three-dimensionally extended lesion from the set of candidate lesions based on at least one of volumetric, morphologic, and texture feature values of each lesion in the set of candidate lesions.