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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2009
Zhengrong Ying, Peabody, MA (US);
Baoming Hong, Peabody, MA (US);
Ram Naidu, Newton, MA (US);
Analogic Corporation, Peabody, MA (US);
Abstract
Representations of an object () in an image generated by an imaging apparatus () can comprise two or more separate sub-objects, producing a compound object (). Compound objects can negatively affect the quality of object visualization and threat identification performance. As provided herein, a compound object () can be separated into sub-objects. Three-dimensional image data of a potential compound object () is projected into a two-dimensional manifold projection (), and segmentation is performed on the two-dimensional manifold projection of the compound object to identify sub-objects. Once sub-objects are identified, the two-dimensional, segmented manifold projection () is projected into three-dimensional space (). A three-dimensional segmentation may then be performed to identify additional sub-objects of the compound object that were not identified by the two-dimensional segmentation.