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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
May. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Matthias Fenchel, Erlangen, DE;
Yiqiang Zhan, Berwyn, PA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0089 (2013.01); G06K 9/627 (2013.01); G06K 9/6262 (2013.01); G06T 11/008 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20128 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus and segmentation method, a region in an MR image, acquired from a scan of a patient with an MR scanner of the apparatus, is provided to a computer for segmentation of the region from the overall image dataset. The segmentation takes place based on a classification of image elements of the image dataset, and the classification is iteratively re-trained in a weakly supervised learning algorithm based on examination-specific information provided to the computer.