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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2011
Applicants:
Gabor Novak, Szeged, HU;
Milan Redele, Varpalota, HU;
Marta Fidrich, Szeged, HU;
Tamas Ungi, Kingston, CA;
Inventors:
Gabor Novak, Szeged, HU;
Milan Redele, Varpalota, HU;
Marta Fidrich, Szeged, HU;
Tamas Ungi, Kingston, CA;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for segmenting bones on magnetic resonance (MR) images includes retrieving an MR image and performing an enhancement process on the MR image to generate a bone enhanced MR image. The bone enhanced MR image is then registered to a computer tomography (CT) based bone atlas. An MR image with bone segmentation is generated by segmenting the bone enhanced MR image using the CT based bone atlas as a mask. The MR image with bone segmentation may be presented on a display.