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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2005
Samuel W. Peterson, St. Paul, MN (US);
Marek Brejl, Eden Praire, MN (US);
Samuel W. Peterson, St. Paul, MN (US);
Marek Brejl, Eden Praire, MN (US);
Vital Images, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Abstract
A method including searching image data corresponding to a series of axial image slices with a processor, searching axial image slices from a starting image slice and calculating a confidence score that an image slice includes a cross-section image of an aorta, identifying an image slice containing at least one seed disk, including an ascending aorta seed disk, from candidate image slices identified according to the confidence score, and growing a 3D segmentation of the ascending aorta by stacking ascending aorta image disks included in consecutive image slices beginning from the ascending aorta seed disk.