Seed relabeling for seed-based segmentation of a medical image

    公开(公告)号:US11749401B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-05

    申请号:US17084875

    申请日:2020-10-30

    Applicant: Guerbet

    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.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION
    99.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230237665A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-27

    申请号:US18191856

    申请日:2023-03-28

    Inventor: Chaoran LIU Yang LI

    Abstract: Systems and methods for image segmentation are provided. The systems may obtain a target image and a template image relating to the target image. The template image may correspond to an initial mask reflecting initial segmentations of the template image. The systems may determine a first transformation and an intermediate template image by preliminarily registering the template image to the target image and generate an intermediate mask based on the initial mask and the first transformation. The systems may determine, based on the intermediate mask, one or more first regions from the target image and one or more second regions from the intermediate template image. The systems may determine a second transformation by registering each of the one or more second regions to a corresponding first region. The systems may determine a target mask according to which the target image can be segmented based on one or more second transformations.

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