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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2011
David Liu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Dijia Wu, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Maria Jimena Costa, Nuremberg, DE;
Michael Suehling, Erlangen, DE;
Christian Tietjen, Fürth, DE;
David Liu, Princeton, NJ (US);
Dijia Wu, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Maria Jimena Costa, Nuremberg, DE;
Michael Suehling, Erlangen, DE;
Christian Tietjen, Fürth, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method and system for automatically detecting liver lesions in medical image data, such as 3D CT images, is disclosed. A liver region is segmented in a 3D image. Liver lesion center candidates are detected in the segmented liver region. Lesion candidates are segmented corresponding to the liver lesion center candidates, and lesions are detected from the segmented lesion candidates using learning based verification.