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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2008
Applicants:
Paul Francis Whelan, Dublin, IE;
Kevin Peter Robinson, Dublin, IE;
Nicolas Sezille, Dublin, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Dublin City University, Dublin, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/0083 (2013.01); G06T 7/0089 (2013.01); G06T 7/402 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20061 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20116 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20136 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20156 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30032 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of formatting data for identifying colon polyps in a Computed Tomography Colonography (CTC) dataset comprising the steps of: extracting colon surface data, from the CTC dataset, within a sub-volume centered on a candidate polyp (CP) seed point; identifying individual sets of points corresponding to the CP's body and CP's base within the sub-volume; selecting the points corresponding to the body; re-formatting the candidate polyp by projecting the selected points corresponding to the body on to a tangent plane; and generating a series of cutting planes based on the reformatted candidate polyp.