Patent ID: 7386153
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for segmenting a medical image, comprising: a user interface unit, which provides interface with a user; a volume data input unit, which inputs medical image information in the form of volume data expressed as functions defined in a three-dimensional space; a two-dimensional image display control unit, which receives the volume data of a medical image from the volume data input unit, generates and displays a two-dimensional image corresponding to a predetermined position in the medical image, and performs segmentation of the two-dimensional image; a three-dimensional image display control unit, which receives the volume data of the medical image from the volume data input unit, generates and displays a three-dimensional image with respect to the medical image, performs segmentation of the three-dimensional image, transmits the result of the segmentation to the two-dimensional image display control unit, receives position information of the two-dimensional image and the result of the segmentation of the two-dimensional image from the two-dimensional image display control unit, and displaying them on the three-dimensional image; and a controller, which controls the two-dimensional image display control unit and the three-dimensional image display control unit based on a user's operating signals input through the user interface unit, the two-dimensional image display control unit segmenting an adjacent region to a target region, which is set to be segmented by the selection information, from the two-dimensional image, the two-dimensional image display storing the segmented adjacent region in a protective region storage block, the two-dimensional image display segmenting the target region when the target region is not a region stored in the protective region storage block.