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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2011
Vladimir Pekar, Toronto, CA;
Arish A. Qazi, Oakville, CA;
Vladimir Pekar, Toronto, CA;
Arish A. Qazi, Oakville, CA;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A system for segmenting current diagnostic images includes a workstation () which segments a volume of interest in previously generated diagnostic images of a selected volume of interest generated from a plurality of patients. One or more processors () are programmed to register the segmented previously generated images and merge the segmented previously generated images into a probability map that depicts a probability that each voxel represents the volume of interest () or background () and a mean segmentation boundary (). A segmentation processor () registers the probability map with a current diagnostic image () to generate a transformed probability map (). A previously-trained classifier () classifies voxels of the diagnostic image with a probability that each voxel depicts the volume of interest or the background. A merge processor () merges the probabilities from the classifier and the transformed probability map. A segmentation boundary processor () determines the segmentation boundary for the volume of interest based on the current image based on the merge probabilities.