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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2006
Oliver Fluck, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shmuel Aharon, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Mikael Rousson, Trenton, NJ (US);
Daniel Cremers, Bonn, DE;
Oliver Fluck, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shmuel Aharon, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Mikael Rousson, Trenton, NJ (US);
Daniel Cremers, Bonn, DE;
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for segmentation of an image interactively with a user utilizes level set segmentation and includes selecting by user input respective areas of object and of background; initializing an embedding function implementing a segmentation boundary according to the selecting; computing intensity distributions and for the respective areas of object and of background; and performing repeatedly the steps below until convergence is reached: (a) evolving the embedding function, (b) recomputing the intensity distributions, and (c) checking for new user input and, if so: (d) updating labeling of the areas of object and background.