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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Noel C. Codella, Lagrangeville, NY (US);

John R. Smith, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0014 (2013.01); G06K 9/621 (2013.01); G06T 7/0083 (2013.01); G06T 7/0087 (2013.01); G06T 7/0089 (2013.01); G06K 2209/05 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and articles of manufacture for image segmentation are provided herein, and include creating an anatomical model from training data comprising one or more imaging modalities, generating one or more simulated images in a target modality based on the anatomical model and one or more principles of physics pertaining to image contrast generation, and comparing the one or more simulated images to an unlabeled input image of a given imaging modality to determine a simulated image of the one or more simulated images to represent the unlabeled input image.


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