MECHANISM FOR ADVANCED STRUCTURE GENERATION AND EDITING

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and a mechanism for manipulating images generated by radiotherapy machines used in radiation diagnostic and treatment applications. In one embodiment, a method is provided for intelligent automatic propagation of manual or automatic contou...

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Main Authors WASCHBUESCH MICHAEL, TOIMELA LASSE, KUNZ PATRIK, HUBER MICHAEL
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 29.12.2011
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTROTHERAPY
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
MAGNETOTHERAPY
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RADIATION THERAPY
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
ULTRASOUND THERAPY
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Summary:Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and a mechanism for manipulating images generated by radiotherapy machines used in radiation diagnostic and treatment applications. In one embodiment, a method is provided for intelligent automatic propagation of manual or automatic contouring across linked (e.g., registered) images and image data sets by acquiring one or more images of one or more image data sets; determining the correlation between the images with respect to identified structures; and generating a deformation map that establishes a correspondence for each point in the source image with a point in the target image. Subsequently, the intelligent propagation mechanism applies this deformation map individually to each structure of the source image and propagates the deformed structure to the target image.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20100821985