A system and method of identifying anatomical structures in a patient. The method includes the acts of acquiring an image of the patient, the image including a set of image elements; segmenting the image to categorize each image elements according to its substance; computing the probability that the categorization of each image element is correct; resegmenting the image starting with image elements that have a high probability and progressing to image elements with lower probabilities; aligning at least one of the image elements with an anatomical atlas; and fitting the anatomical atlas to the segmented image.
申请公布号
WO2009111580(A3)
申请公布日期
2009.12.03
申请号
WO2009US36057
申请日期
2009.03.04
申请人
TOMOTHERAPY INCORPORATED;RUCHALA, KENNETH, J.;GERING, DAVID, T.