发明名称 |
RADIOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT PLANNING APPARATUS AND METHODS |
摘要 |
A treatment planning apparatus comprises a means for receiving a three dimensional representation of a patient, a means for displaying at least a part of the representation, a means for user-designation of sub-regions of the representation, and a computing means adapted to segment the representation into a region within an anatomical structure and a region outside the anatomical structure on the basis of the locations of the sub-regions and the degree of similarity of voxels to neighbouring voxels in the representation. The treatment planning apparatus preferably further comprises means for designating sub- regions as being inside the structure, means for designating sub-regions as being outside the structure, and/or means for designating sub-regions as being at a border of the structure. In the latter case, we prefer that the size of border sub-regions is adjustable. The computing means can segment the representation by minimising a cost function. We also prefer that the initial values of the function in sub-regions designated as being in a border region are constrained to a different preset value. In an particularly useful aspect of this invention, after minimisation of the function the values in sub-regions designated as being in a border region are then un-constrained, the remaining values are constrained, and the function is then minimised a second time. |
申请公布号 |
WO2009118021(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2009.10.01 |
申请号 |
WO2008EP02340 |
申请日期 |
2008.03.25 |
申请人 |
ELEKTA AB (PUBL);ERIKSSON, JAERLIDEN, ANDREAS, LARS, GUNNAR |
发明人 |
ERIKSSON, JAERLIDEN, ANDREAS, LARS, GUNNAR |
分类号 |
G06T7/00 |
主分类号 |
G06T7/00 |
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