Systems and Methods for Automated Segmentation, Visualization and Analysis of Medical Images

摘要

An imaging system for automated segmentation and visualization of medical images ( 100 ) includes an image processing module ( 107 ) for automatically processing image data using a set of directives ( 109 ) to identify a target object in the image data and process the image data according to a specified protocol, a rendering module ( 105 ) for automatically generating one or more images of the target object based on one or more of the directives ( 109 ) and a digital archive ( 110 ) for storing the one or more generated images. The image data may be DICOM-formatted image data ( 103 ), wherein the imaging processing module ( 107 ) extracts and processes meta-data in DICOM fields of the image data to identify the target object. The image processing module ( 107 ) directs a segmentation module ( 108 ) to segment the target object using processing parameters specified by one or more of the directives ( 109 ).