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Method and system for vessel segmentation in fluoroscopic images

US8121367B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Richard Socher · Menlo Park, US
Adrian Barbu · Tallahassee, US
Bogdan Georgescu · Plainsboro, US
Wei Zhang · Nanjing, CN
Peter Durlak · Erlangen, DE
Stefan Böhm · Oberasbach, DE
Dorin Comaniciu · Princeton Junction, US

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 26, 2008
Grant date	Feb 21, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 22, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V40/14
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system for vessel segmentation in fluoroscopic images is disclosed. Hierarchical learning-based detection is used to perform the vessel segmentation. A boundary classifier is trained and used to detect boundary pixels of a vessel in a fluoroscopic image. A cross-segment classifier is trained and used to detect cross-segments connecting the boundary pixels. A quadrilateral classifier is trained and used to detect quadrilaterals connecting the cross segments. Dynamic programming is then used to combine the quadrilaterals to generate a tubular structure representing the vessel.

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