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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2012
Timo Kohlberger, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Michal Sofka, Franklin Park, NJ (US);
Jens Wetzl, Oberasbach, DE;
Jingdan Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Neil Birkbeck, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Jerome Declerck, Oxford, GB;
Jens Kaftan, Oxford, GB;
Timo Kohlberger, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Michal Sofka, Franklin Park, NJ (US);
Jens Wetzl, Oberasbach, DE;
Jingdan Zhang, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Neil Birkbeck, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Jerome Declerck, Oxford, GB;
Jens Kaftan, Oxford, GB;
Siemens Corporation, Iselin, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and system for automatic multi-organ segmentation in a 3D image, such as a 3D computed tomography (CT) volume using learning-base segmentation and level set optimization is disclosed. A plurality of meshes are segmented in a 3D medical image, each mesh corresponding to one of a plurality of organs. A level set in initialized by converting each of the plurality of meshes to a respective signed distance map. The level set optimized by refining the signed distance map corresponding to each one of the plurality of organs to minimize an energy function.