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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2011
Christoph Guetter, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Jens Gühring, Erlangen, DE;
Marie-pierre Jolly, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Arne Littmann, Erlangen, DE;
Manuela Rick, Buckenhof, DE;
Michaela Schmidt, Uttenreuth, DE;
Hui Xue, Franklin Park, NJ (US);
Christoph Guetter, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Jens Gühring, Erlangen, DE;
Marie-Pierre Jolly, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Arne Littmann, Erlangen, DE;
Manuela Rick, Buckenhof, DE;
Michaela Schmidt, Uttenreuth, DE;
Hui Xue, Franklin Park, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for identifying a region of interest within a time sequence of images includes acquiring a time sequence of images comprising a plurality of image frames. Image segmentation is performed to segment a region of interest (ROI) from within each of the plurality of image frames of the time sequence of images. Manual edits are received for the ROI within one or more of the plurality of image frames. The manual edits are propagated to other image frames of the plurality of images. An extent to which each of the manual edits are propagated to other image frames is dependent upon a transformation function or deformation field used to propagate the manual edits and a weighing factor that is influenced by a distance in time between the other image frames and the frames that have been manually edited.