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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 15/20 (2011.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2013.01); A61B 6/025 (2013.01); A61B 6/502 (2013.01); G06T 15/205 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and related apparatus (VS) for synthetic projection images, in particular synthetic 2D mammograms (S) formed from a 3D image volume T made up of slices (SL). It is proposed to compute a forward projection (FP) using a weighted average function that is implemented by a filter (FL). The filter function (FL) is configured such that that voxels in a slice with maximum sharpness are assigned highest weights thereby avoiding blurring by averaging with structurally less relevant slices.