SEGMENTING COLON WALL VIA LEVEL SET TECHNIQUES

Patent №

US 8,175,348

Granted

2012-05-08

Filed 2007

Owner

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11810704

Various level set techniques can be used to automatically segment the colon wall, including identifying the colon wall outer boundary. A speed image can be used during level set processing. For example, the speed image can be generated via inverting the gradient perpendicular to the segmented inner boundary of the colon wall. The techniques can be useful for determining wall thickness, which can be used to classify polyp candidates, diagnose diseases of the colon, and the like.

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AI classification

Vision1.00
Machine learning0.23
Natural language0.11
Planning0.07
AI hardware0.04
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

assignment · 197770693

Assignors

BITTER, INGMAR, VAN UITERT, ROBERT L., JR., SUMMERS, RONALD M.

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

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