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Human body representation with non-rigid parts in an imaging system

US9898858B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

Birgi Tamersoy · Erlangen, DE
Kai Ma · Plainsboro, US
Vivek Singh · Monmouth Junction, US
Yao-Jen Chang
Ziyan Wu · Lexington, US
Terrence Chen · Princeton, US
Andreas Wimmer · Graz, AT

Key dates

Filing date	May 18, 2016
Grant date	Feb 20, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 18, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V40/10
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

For human body representation, bone length or other size characteristic that varies within the population is incorporated into the geometric model of the skeleton. The geometric model may be normalized for shape or tissue modeling, allowing modeling of the shape without dedicating aspects of the data-driven shape model to the length or other size characteristic. Given the same number or extent of components of the data-driven shape model, greater or finer details of the shape may be modeled since components are not committed to the size characteristic.

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