Patent ID: 9299145
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable instructions tangibly embodied thereon which, when implemented, cause a computer to carry out a plurality of method steps comprising: creating a statistical anatomical model from training data comprising one or more source imaging modalities, wherein the training data comprises multiple anatomical images derived from a population of multiple individuals, wherein each of the multiple anatomical images contains one or more annotations, and wherein said creating comprises: generating one or more simulated images based on the statistical anatomical model and one or more principles of physics pertaining to image contrast generation; and comparing the one or more simulated images to an unlabeled input image of a given imaging modality to determine a simulated image of the one or more simulated images to represent the unlabeled input image.