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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2007
Srikanth Suryanarayanan, Bangalore, IN;
Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore, IN;
Mitali Janardan More, Mumbai, IN;
Krishna Seetharam Shriram, Bangalore, IN;
Srikanth Suryanarayanan, Bangalore, IN;
Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore, IN;
Mitali Janardan More, Mumbai, IN;
Krishna Seetharam Shriram, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A technique is provided for utilizing a model of an anatomical feature to facilitate the segmentation of the anatomical feature from its background in a medical image. A global alignment of the model with a region in the patient's image data that generally corresponds to the anatomical feature is performed in one embodiment. Internal structural features within the model are then aligned with their corresponding structural features in the patient's image data. The portion of the patient's image data that is aligned with the model of the anatomical feature is then segmented from the remaining portions of the patient's image data that are not aligned with the model.