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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2011
Eric Pichon, Versailles, FR;
Michel F. Grimaud, Montrouge, FR;
Yves Lucien Trousset, Palaiseau, FR;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for processing an image of a body region is provided, the region comprising a plurality of vessels capable of propagating a fluid of the body, the image comprising a plurality of pixels each being associated with an intensity. The method comprising determining, for each pixel, a probability that the pixel belongs to a vessel, based on the intensity of the pixel; simulating a propagation of the fluid from at least one source pixel towards the pixels of the image, the propagation being simulated to have a velocity that is function of the probability that the pixels of the image belong to a vessel; and inferring from the simulation a propagation time between the source pixel and each of the pixels of the image.