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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2012
Dijia Wu, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
David Liu, Tampa, FL (US);
Christian Tietjen, Fürth, DE;
Grzegorz Soza, Heroldsberg, DE;
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Dijia Wu, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
David Liu, Tampa, FL (US);
Christian Tietjen, Fürth, DE;
Grzegorz Soza, Heroldsberg, DE;
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Dorin Comaniciu, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and system for extracting rib centerlines in a 3D volume, such as a 3D computed tomography (CT) volume, is disclosed. Rib centerline voxels are detected in the 3D volume using a learning based detector. Rib centerlines or the whole rib cage are then extracted by matching a template of rib centerlines for the whole rib cage to the 3D volume based on the detected rib centerline voxels. Each of the extracted rib centerlines are then individually refined using an active contour model.