Patent ID: 11948305
Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A system for segmenting a lung image, comprising:
a processor;
a computer readable storage medium in communication with the processor, wherein the processor executes computer readable instructions stored in the computer readable storage medium which cause the processor to:
obtain medical image data containing a lung region;
perform lung lobe segmentation on the medical image data to define a plurality of boundaries in the medical image data;
generate updated lung image data based on image data within one or a plurality of boundaries among the plurality of boundaries of the medical image data, wherein generating the updated lung image data comprises merging image data within at least two boundaries in the plurality of boundaries and performing a morphological closing operation on the merged image data; and
perform nidus segmentation on the updated lung image data to generate a segmentation image that identifies a pneumonia nidus.