Method and system for automatically detecting anatomical structures in a medical image
US12283052B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 12, 2021 |
| Grant date | Apr 22, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 21, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V2201/031
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for automatically detecting anatomical structures (3) in a medical image (1) of a subject, the method comprising applying an object detector function (4) to the medical image, wherein the object detector function performs the steps of: (A) applying a first neural network (40) to the medical image, wherein the first neural network is trained to detect a first plurality of classes of larger-sized anatomical structures (3a), thereby generating as output the coordinates of at least one first bounding box (51) and the confidence score of it containing a larger-sized anatomical structure; (B) cropping (42) the medical image to the first bounding box, thereby generating a cropped image (11) containing the image content within the first bounding box (51); and (C) applying a second neural network (44) to the cropped medical image, wherein the second neural network is trained to detect at least one second class of smaller-sized anatomical structures (3b), thereby generating as output the coordinates of at least one second bounding box (54) and the confidence score of it containing a smaller-sized anatomical structure.
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