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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00362 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/4504 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/505 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); A61B 8/0875 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); G06T 7/0014 (2013.01); G06T 7/0083 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30008 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a method and apparatus to automatically display and/or measure bone variations in medical image data, an image data set of an examination region is acquired and the bone regions in the image data set are automatically segmented in a first segmentation followed by a second segmentation in which bone variation regions in the image data set are automatically segmented on the basis of the results of the first segmentation. The results of the first and/or second segmentations are stored and/or displayed.