Electronic Cleansing of Digital Data Sets

• Main Authors: MARK BRENDAN SUGRUE, PAUL FRANCIS WHELAN, KEVIN PETER ROBINSON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.01.2010
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICS; SURGERY

A method of processing a 3-dimensional Computed Tomography Colonography data set to remove tagged material is disclosed. The method involves the preliminary processing step of classifying voxels in the data set as corresponding to air, tagged material or colon tissue. Methods of overcoming erroneous...