Method and System for Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Axillary Lymph Nodes

A method and system for automatically detecting and segmenting lymph nodes in a 3D medical image, such as a CT image, is disclosed. A plurality of lymph node center point candidates are detected in the 3D medical image. A lymph node candidate is segmented for each of the detected lymph node center p...

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Main Authors ZHOU SHAOHUA KEVIN, LIU DAVID, BARBU ADRIAN, SUEHLING MICHAEL, XU XUN (JASON), COMANICIU DORIN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.09.2011
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
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Summary:A method and system for automatically detecting and segmenting lymph nodes in a 3D medical image, such as a CT image, is disclosed. A plurality of lymph node center point candidates are detected in the 3D medical image. A lymph node candidate is segmented for each of the detected lymph node center point candidates. Lymph nodes are detected from the segmented lymph node candidates by verifying the segmented lymph node candidates using a trained lymph node classifier.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201113041569