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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Raviteja Vemulapalli, Hyattsville, MD (US);
Hien Nguyen, Bensalem, PA (US);
Shaohua Kevin Zhou, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for unsupervised cross-modal medical image synthesis is disclosed, which synthesizes a target modality medical image based on a source modality medical image without the need for paired source and target modality training data. A source modality medical image is received. Multiple candidate target modality intensity values are generated for each of a plurality of voxels of a target modality medical image based on corresponding voxels in the source modality medical image. A synthesized target modality medical image is generated by selecting, jointly for all of the plurality of voxels in the target modality medical image, intensity values from the multiple candidate target modality intensity values generated for each of the plurality of voxels. The synthesized target modality medical image can be refined using coupled sparse representation.