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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2005
Zhuowen Tu, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiang Zhou, Exton, PA (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Christian P. Schultz, Beverly, MA (US);
Zhuowen Tu, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiang Zhou, Exton, PA (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Christian P. Schultz, Beverly, MA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for segmenting a digitized image includes providing a digitized image comprising a plurality of intensities defined on a lattice of pixels, initializing a Bayesian prior probability and likelihood function for segmenting said image, decomposing said image into a union of a plurality of subspaces wherein each subspace is a product of k-partitions, and distributing a plurality Bayesian posterior probability functions over said subspaces, updating said Bayesian posterior probability functions via a data-driven Markov-chain, and selecting a subset of said Bayesian posterior probability functions that approximate a true Bayesian posterior probability function.