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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2007
Atilla Peter Kiraly, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
LI Zhang, Skillman, NJ (US);
Carol L. Novak, Newton, PA (US);
Lutz Gündel, Erlangen, DE;
Atilla Peter Kiraly, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Li Zhang, Skillman, NJ (US);
Carol L. Novak, Newton, PA (US);
Lutz Gündel, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for assigning a lymph node in a medical image with an anatomical name, the method including: identifying landmarks in a medical image; computing features relative to the landmarks given a location of a lymph node in the medical image; and assigning an anatomical name to the location of the lymph node by using a classifier that compares the computed features with classification rules.