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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2009
Julia Pavlovich, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sergey Simanovsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Zhengrong Ying, Belmont, MA (US);
Ram Naidu, Newton, MA (US);
Julia Pavlovich, Cambridge, MA (US);
Sergey Simanovsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Zhengrong Ying, Belmont, MA (US);
Ram Naidu, Newton, MA (US);
Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA (US);
Abstract
Representations of an object in an image generated by an imaging apparatus can comprise two or more separate sub-objects, producing a compound object. Compound objects can negatively affect the quality of object visualization and threat identification performance. As provided herein, a compound object can be separated into sub-objects. Topology score map data, representing topological differences in the potential compound object, may be computed and used in a statistical distribution to identify modes that may be indicative of the sub-objects. The identified modes may be assigned a label and a voxel of the image data indicative of the potential compound object may be relabeled based on the label assigned to a mode that represents data corresponding to properties of a portion of the object that the voxel represents to create image data indicative of one or more sub-objects.