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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
May. 25, 2006
Luca Bogoni, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Jianming Liang, Paoli, PA (US);
Pascal Cathier, Bures, FR;
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for toboggan-based object detection in cutting planes are provided. A method for detecting an object in an image includes: determining a region of interest (ROI) in the image; determining a toboggan potential for each image element in the ROI; extracting a plurality of cutting planes from the ROI; and performing a tobogganing in the cutting planes to form a toboggan cluster to determine a location of the object, wherein image elements inside the toboggan cluster are stored in a cluster-member list, image elements on an outer-border of the toboggan cluster are stored in an outer-border list and image elements on an inner-border of the toboggan cluster are stored in an inner-border list.