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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2004
Matthieu Denis Ferrant, Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse, FR;
Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Paulo Ricardo Dos Santos Mendonca, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Jerome Knoplioch, Neuilly sur Seine, FR;
Rahul Bhotika, Guilderland, NY (US);
Matthieu Denis Ferrant, Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse, FR;
Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Paulo Ricardo dos Santos Mendonca, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Jerome Knoplioch, Neuilly sur Seine, FR;
Rahul Bhotika, Guilderland, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes generating a first response including a plurality of potential first objects of interest of a first shape from data regarding a region of interest (ROI), generating a second response including a plurality of second objects of interest for a second shape different than the first shape from the data regarding the ROI, and performing a morphological closing on the second response to produce a second cleaned response including a plurality of completed second objects. The method also includes decreasing the number of potential objects of interest in the first response by deleting any potential first objects that overlap any completed second objects to obtain a cleaned first response, and generating an image using at least one of the first cleaned response and the second cleaned response.