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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Impac Medical Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yan Zhou, Saint Peters, MO (US);
Xiao Han, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Nicolette Patricia Magro, Cornelius, NC (US);
Assignee:
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc., Sunnycale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/5205 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/0042 (2013.01); G06T 7/0083 (2013.01); G06T 7/0089 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for performing automatic contouring in a medical image. The method may include receiving an image containing a region of interest and determining a first contour of the region of interest using a boundary detector. The method may include refining the first contour based on a shape dictionary to generate a second contour of the region of interest and updating at least one of the boundary detector or the shape dictionary based on the second contour.