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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2004
Joseph L. Mundy, Barrington, RI (US);
Benjamin Kimia, Providence, RI (US);
Joseph L. Mundy, Barrington, RI (US);
Benjamin Kimia, Providence, RI (US);
Brown University, Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, a method and apparatus for determining a value for at least one parameter of a configuration of a model associated with structure of which view data has been obtained including detecting at least one feature in the view data, and determining the value for the at least one parameter of the configuration of the model based at least in part on the at least one feature. In another aspect, a method and apparatus for detecting at least one blood vessel from object view data obtained from a scan of the at least one blood vessel including generating a model of the at least one blood vessel, the model having a plurality of parameters describing a model configuration, determining a hypothesis for the model configuration based, at least in part, on at least one feature detected in the object view data, and updating the model configuration according to a comparison with the object view data to arrive at a final model configuration, so that the final model configuration represents the at least one blood vessel.