| 摘要 |
A method and system are described that generate customizable reference atlases by automatically extracting relevant images from imaging studies of similar patients stored in an atlas database of archived imaging studies. Keying off user input as to the characteristics of the target patient currently under examination, the method and system identify archived volumes of patients images having similar characteristics, identifies relevant images from those collections, and processes those image to equate their intensity, contrast, and/or orientation with relevant target patient images. In addition, the disclosed method and system automatically extract relevant images from the patient's MR and CT imaging studies. Expert rules are used to infer the suspected abnormality and the anatomical location from structured input related to patient presenting condition. The contrast/intensity customized labeled atlas is registered to the patient imaging study to extract the images that contain the area of abnormality identified by the expert rule based system.
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