Seed relabeling for seed-based segmentation of a medical image
US11749401B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 30, 2020 |
| Grant date | Sep 5, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 7, 2041 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V2201/031
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for seed relabeling for seed-based slice-wise lesion segmentation. The mechanism receives a lesion mask for a three-dimensional medical image volume. The lesion mask corresponds to detected lesions in the medical image volume and wherein each detected lesion has a lesion contour. The mechanism generates a distance map for a given two-dimensional slice in the medical image volume based on the lesion mask. The distance map comprises a distance to a lesion contour for each voxel of the given two-dimensional slice. The mechanism performs local maxima identification to select a set of local maxima from the distance map such that each local maximum has a value greater than its immediate neighbor points. The mechanism performs seed relabeling based on the distance map and the set of local maxima to generate a set of seeds. Each seed represents a center of a distinct component of a lesion contour. The mechanism performs image segmentation on the lesion mask based on the set of seeds to form a split lesion mask.
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