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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2008
Toshiro Kubota, Lewisburg, PA (US);
Anna Jerebko, West Chester, PA (US);
Marcos Salganicoff, Bala Cynwyd, PA (US);
Toshiro Kubota, Lewisburg, PA (US);
Anna Jerebko, West Chester, PA (US);
Marcos Salganicoff, Bala Cynwyd, PA (US);
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for differentiating pulmonary nodules in digitized medical images includes identifying an object of interest from a digital image of the lungs, computing a first distance map of each point of the object of interest, determining a seed point from the first distance map, starting from the seed point, growing a first region by adding successive adjacent layers of points until a background point is reached, and partitioning the first region into a nodule region and a non-nodule region.