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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
May. 24, 2016
Applicant:
Algotec Systems Ltd., Rochester, NY (US);
Inventors:
Oranit Dror, Rishon Leziyyon, IL;
Guy Engelhard, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Assignee:
Algotec Systems Ltd., Ra'anana, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/12 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/12 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20156 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract
Spatial segmentation of lymph nodes in a 3-D medical image is automatically determined, based on a set of inputs provided by a user which define a low number of initial conditions for segmentation. In some embodiments, the automation comprises producing a lymph node segmentation from the 3-D image based on a 2-D image slice and a representative line segment on that slice. In some embodiments, segmentation comprises a two tiered approach (2-D segmentation, followed by 3-D segmentation) based on adaptation of the level set framework to the particular conditions of lymph node segmentation.