Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-22
2007-05-22
Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
C382S173000, C382S203000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10315884
ABSTRACT:
A method for automatically segmenting lung regions in a chest radiographic image comprising; providing an input digital chest radiograph image; preprocessing the input digital radiographic image; extracting the chest body midline and lung centerlines from the preprocessed image. Locating one-by-one, the chest body model, the spine model and the two lung models in the image based on the extracted chest body midline and two lung centerlines; and detecting the lung contours by deforming the lung shape models to converge to the true lung boundaries as a function of the extracting and locating image processing.
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Foos David H.
Luo Hui
Bella Matthew C.
Eastman Kodak Company
Shah Utpal
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