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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2008
Toshiro Kubota, Lewisburg, PA (US);
Toshiro Kubota, Lewisburg, PA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for automatically estimating a measure of a nodule includes providing sliced image volume data comprising at least one marked position of the nodule, extracting a sub-volume from the sliced image volume data that includes the marked position, performing a figure-ground separation to determine a solid foreground of the sub-volume and a non-solid foreground of the sub-volume, determining a seed point corresponding to the nodule from each of the solid foreground and the non-solid foreground, selecting one of the seed point of the solid foreground or the seed point of the non-solid foreground, determining whether the selected seed point is solitary or non-solitary and performing region growing for non-solitary selected seed point, determining a segmentation of the selected seed point, estimating the measure of the nodule corresponding to the segmentation, and outputting the segmentation and an estimate of the measure of the nodule.
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