Method and system for the assessment of tumor extent in magnetic

Details Method and system for the assessment of tumor extent in magnetic Method and system for the assessment of tumor extent in magnetic

1998-09-18

2000-08-29

Lateef, Marvin M.

Surgery

Diagnostic testing

Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation

378 37, 378 62, 382128, 382131, 382132, 600420, A61B 5055

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061121126

ABSTRACT:
A method, computer program product, and system for assessing tumor extent in medical temporally acquired images. The method, on which the computer program product and system is based, includes obtaining image data corresponding to temporally acquired images including a tumor and surrounding anatomy and performing variance processing on the obtained image data to derive variance image data defining a variance image indicative of variation of voxels in the temporally acquired medical images. Techniques include novel developments and implementations of breast volume segmentation, breast border removal, lesion enhancement, determination of the bounding sphere, computation of a 3-D search volume, suppression of surrounding structures, and volume growing. Output from the methods yields an estimate of the extent of the tumor (lesion) in the breast.

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