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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2012
Shaolei Feng, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Andre DE Oliveira, Erlangen, DE;
Berthold Kiefer, Erlangen, DE;
Jingdan Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shaolei Feng, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Andre de Oliveira, Erlangen, DE;
Berthold Kiefer, Erlangen, DE;
Jingdan Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and system for automatic lung segmentation in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images and videos is disclosed. A plurality of predetermined key landmarks of a lung are detected in an MRI image. The key landmarks may be detected using discriminative joint contexts representing combinations of multiple key landmarks. A lung boundary is segmented in the MRI image based on the detected key landmarks. The landmark detection and the lung boundary segmentation can be repeated in each frame of an MRI video.