Patent ID: 9020216
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for segmenting an image data set, the method comprising: accessing a medical image set; accessing a plurality of representative reference image sets from a knowledge-base, wherein each of the representative reference image sets comprises an image set of a corresponding single subject; averaging the plurality of representative reference image sets to produce an average reference image set, wherein the average reference image set is a statistical average of reference image sets within the knowledge-base, wherein the statistical average of the reference image sets within the knowledge-base is determined by determining a statistical average of a quantity of deformablv or affinelv registered reference image sets within the knowledge-base; deforming at least a portion of the average reference image set to the medical image set; and determining a segmentation for a plurality of structures of interest in the medical image set based upon information in the average reference image set.