METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MEDICAL IMAGES

摘要

A method of processing medical images, performed by a computer processor and compulsing the steps of: (a) obtaining one or more atlases containing one or more images in which one or more anatomical features have been labelled with label data (b) obtaining a plurality of unlabelled images; (c) comparing the labelled and unlabelled images and selecting one or more unlabelled images that most closely resemble(s) one or more of the labelled images; (d) to each of those selected image(s), propagating label data from one or more of the closest of the labelled images, thereby labelling the corresponding anatomical feature(s) of each of the selected image(s) and causing the selected image(s) to become labelled image(s); and (e) iteratively repeating from step (c), thereby labelling others of the unlabelled images.