LUMEN TRACKING IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES

Patent №

US 7,965,880

Granted

2011-06-21

Filed 2010

Owner

THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

3

ml · nlp · vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12832306

A lumen tracking method and system automatically extracts a colon from CT image data by locating landmarks in the image data, based on known anatomic features or other predictable features. If the colon is segmented, the method and system may use the landmarks to evaluate candidate segments for inclusion in the extracted colon.

Machine learningNatural languageVisionG06T 5/80G06T 5/94G06T 7/136G06V 10/457A61B 6/583G06T 2207/10081G06T 2207/20012G06T 2207/30028+2 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
Machine learning0.84
Natural language0.79
AI hardware0.21
Planning0.12
Knowledge representation0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION

assignment · 246530132

Assignors

YOSHIDA, HIROYUKI, NAPPI, JANNE, ZALIS, MICHAEL E., CAI, WENLI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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