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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2013
Orientation-aware average intensity histogram to indicate object boundary depth in ultrasound images
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/0085 (2013.01); G06T 7/0051 (2013.01); G06K 9/4647 (2013.01);
Abstract
Linear candidate lines at different angles are used to determine an average intensity for each pixel level of an ultrasound image. The resultant average intensities are collected into a histogram, and the histogram is used to determine the depth positions of tissue boundary lines within an ultrasound image.