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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2008
Applicants:
Sara Badiei, Vancouver, CA;
Septimiu Edmund Salcudean, Vancouver, CA;
Seyedeh Sara Mahdavi, Vancouver, CA;
Inventors:
Sara Badiei, Vancouver, CA;
Septimiu Edmund Salcudean, Vancouver, CA;
Seyedeh Sara Mahdavi, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G06T 9/20 (2006.01); G06K 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for delineating the contour of an object in captured medical images by first transforming the shape of the object into a simple geometric shape that is more computationally tractable than the shape of the object. After the contour of the transformed shape is detected, the inverse of the transformation is applied to the contour such that it represents the contour of the object in the captured medical image.