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- Patent Title: Method for distinguishing pulmonary artery and pulmonary vein, and method for quantifying blood vessels using same
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Application No.: US14881817Application Date: 2015-10-13
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Publication No.: US09996918B2Publication Date: 2018-06-12
- Inventor: Nam Kug Kim , Joon Beom Seo , Se Youn Park , Sang Min Lee
- Applicant: The Asan Foundation
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: The Asan Foundation
- Current Assignee: The Asan Foundation
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
- Agent Kongsik Kim; Katherine C. Jensen
- Priority: KR10-2013-0039075 20130410; KR10-2013-0097769 20130819
- Main IPC: G06T7/00
- IPC: G06T7/00 ; A61B6/00 ; A61B6/03 ; G06K9/46 ; G06K9/52 ; G06K9/62

Abstract:
A method for distinguishing between pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins and a method for quantifying blood vessels are disclosed. The method for distinguishing between pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins includes: forming a set of pulmonary vessels for points corresponding to pulmonary vessels, wherein each of the points of the set of pulmonary vessels has weight information; forming a tree from the points of the set of pulmonary vessels by using the weight information; and distinguishing between the pulmonary arteries and the pulmonary veins by separating the tree into a plurality of regions. The method for quantifying blood vessels includes: extracting blood vessels as a three-dimensional set of voxels based on medical images of an organ; finding the voxels of blood vessels included in a region of interest of the organ; and quantifying length information of the blood vessels by using the found voxels.
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