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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2007
Xiaoye Wu, Rexford, NY (US);
David Allen Langan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
James Vradenburg Miller, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Yogisha Mallya, Bangalore, IN;
Srikanth Suryanarayanan, Bangalore, IN;
Xiaoye Wu, Rexford, NY (US);
David Allen Langan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
James Vradenburg Miller, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Yogisha Mallya, Bangalore, IN;
Srikanth Suryanarayanan, Bangalore, IN;
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A technique is provided for extracting one or more features of interest from one or more projection images. The technique includes accessing projection images comprising at least one feature of interest enhanced by a contrast agent, generating a contrast agent null image based on the projection images, generating a bone mask based on the contrast agent null image, and generating a bone extracted image based on the bone mask.