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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2005
David S. Paik, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Padmavathi Sundaram, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher F. Beaulieu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sandy A. Napel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David S. Paik, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Padmavathi Sundaram, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christopher F. Beaulieu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Sandy A. Napel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of identifying polyps and in a medical image is provided. In a first step, a 3-dimensional model is made of the medical image that contains both polyps (if any were present in the original medical image) and folds. Next, a second 3-dimensional model of the medical image, which is a filtered version of the first model, is constructed in which folds are preserved, but polyps are minimized or eliminated. In a third step, any polyps that were contained in the medical image are identified by subtracting the second 3-dimensional model from the first 3-dimensional model. This subtraction results in a third 3-dimensional model, in which polyps are preserved but folds are minimized or eliminated. With the present inventive method, polyps may be easily and quickly identified without interference from folds.