SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLON UNFOLDING VIA SKELETAL SUBSPACE DEFORMATION

Patent №

US 8,300,047

Granted

2012-10-30

Filed 2009

Owner

SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH, INC.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

2

ml · vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12398220

A system and method for colon unfolding via skeletal subspace deformation comprises: performing a centerline computation on a segmented image for deriving a centerline thereof; computing a distance map utilizing said centerline and said segmented image to derive said distance map; generating a polyhedral model of the lumen of said colon; and utilizing said polyhedral model, said distance map, and said centerline for performing a straightening operation on said centerline.

Machine learningVisionG06T 7/13G06T 7/155G06T 7/60G06T 15/08G06T 19/00G06T 2207/20044G06T 2207/30028G06T 2207/30172+3 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
Machine learning0.73
Knowledge representation0.36
AI hardware0.09
Speech0.05
Evolutionary computation0.02
Natural language0.01
Planning0.00

Ownership

SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH, INC.

assignment · 225360340

SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT

assignment · 225360388

Assignors

CHEF'D'HOTEL, CHRISTOPHE, GEIGER, BERNHARD, SUDARSKY, SANDRA

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

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