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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2013
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam, Bangalore, IN;
Navneeth Subamanian, Bangalore, IN;
Mithun Das Gupta, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0097 (2013.01); G06T 7/0089 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/0083 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20116 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30048 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems for segmentation in echocardiography are provided. One method includes obtaining echocardiographic images and defining a search space within the echocardiographic images using a pair of one-dimensional (1D) profiles. The method also includes using an energy based function constrained by non-local temporal priors within the defined search space to automatically segment a contour of a cardiac structure with the 1D profiles.