Segmentation of anatomic structures using navigation table

Details Segmentation of anatomic structures using navigation table Segmentation of anatomic structures using navigation table

2009-08-28

2010-11-09

Johns, Andrew W (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

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Biomedical applications

C382S173000

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07831079

ABSTRACT:
A method of constructing a navigation table relating a set of images representative of a region of interest in a subject to a reference system with reference positions indicating known anatomic landmarks of a reference subject comprising providing reference positions for two or more images identified with two or more anatomic landmarks indicative of the region of interest with reference positions of known anatomic landmarks corresponding to the identified anatomic landmarks, and determining reference positions for the remaining images by interpolation.

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