Patent ID: 8509510
Filing Date: 2013-08-13
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for processing images, in which individual images succeed one another in a direction of succession, the method comprising: constructing a multi-dimensional data set from the individual images, wherein the multi-dimensional data set assigns data values to positions in a multi-dimensional space, and the multi-dimensional space is set up by the direction of succession and two directions parallel to the surface of the individual images; reconstructing a slice through the multi-dimensional data set along a cut plane through the multi-dimensional space and intersecting the individual images, wherein the cut plane is oriented based on a priori information concerning a region of interest, wherein the orientation of the cut plane is non-orthogonal to the direction of succession; locating an edge of the region of interest in all of the individual images based on an intersection of the cut lane with the edge of the region of interest in less than all of the individual images; segmenting the region of interest in the individual images, wherein the segmenting is performed on the basis of (i) information in the reconstructed slice along the cut plane through the multi-dimensional data set and (ii) a location of the edge of the region of interest; wherein the direction of the cut plane has a component in the direction of succession, and in which a the region of interest is located on the basis of the cut plane.