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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2006
Grégoire Guétat, Talant, FR;
Jonathan Stoeckel, RB Hierden, NL;
Matthias Wolf, Coatesville, PA (US);
Grégoire Guétat, Talant, FR;
Jonathan Stoeckel, RB Hierden, NL;
Matthias Wolf, Coatesville, PA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for identifying non-body structures in digitized medical images including the steps of providing a digitized image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on an N-dimensional grid, wherein said image includes a representation of a body and of non-body structures separate from said body, initializing a surface in said image on a side of said non-body structures opposite from said body, defining a plurality of forces acting on said surface, and displacing said surface through said non-body structures using said forces until said body is encountered.