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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2009
Ali Khamene, Princeton, NJ (US);
Leo Grady, Yardley, PA (US);
Eike Rietzel, Darmstadt, DE;
Thomas Boettger, Heidelberg, DE;
Ali Khamene, Princeton, NJ (US);
Leo Grady, Yardley, PA (US);
Eike Rietzel, Darmstadt, DE;
Thomas Boettger, Heidelberg, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Abstract
Methods and systems dedicated to automatic object segmentation from image data are provided. In a first step a fuzzy seed set is generated that is learned from training data. The fuzzy seed set is registered to image data containing an object that needs to be segmented from a background. In a second step a random walker segmentation is applied to the image data by using the fuzzy seed set as an automatic seeding for segmentation. Liver segmentation, lung segmentation and kidney segmentation examples are provided.