Patent ID: 8542903
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically delineating image data corresponding to vasculature in an anatomical region, the method comprising: obtaining, by an image acquisition device, image data corresponding to soft tissue representative of the anatomical region; segmenting, by a demarcation module of a system controller, image data corresponding to a region of interest from image data corresponding to the anatomical region based on a patient population to obtain image data corresponding to a segmented region of interest; selecting a bank of patient parameter based filters based on a patient type and at least one patient parameter corresponding to the patient type, wherein the patient type comprises one of a large adult patient, a medium adult patient, a small adult patient, and a pediatric patient, and wherein the at least one patient parameter comprises at least one of a scaling ratio, a deviation ratio, an orientation deviation ratio, and a noise threshold; extracting, by an extracting module of the system controller, image data corresponding to vasculature associated with the segmented region of interest by using the selected bank of patient parameter based filters to aid in suppressing image data corresponding to soft tissue representative of the segmented region of interest.