Patent ID: 8805035
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of contouring a set of medical images, comprising: receiving a source image from the set of medical images and source contour data associated with the source image, the source contour data identifying one or more objects within the source image; identifying a target image in the set of medical images to contour; generating, by a processor, deformation field data from the source image and the target image in accordance with a deformation algorithm, the deformation field data indicative of changes between the one or more objects from the source image to the target image; and generating, by the processor, automatic target contour data based on the deformation field data and the source contour data, the automatic target contour data identifying the one or more objects within the target image, wherein the deformation algorithm includes one or more parameters that are optimized for use with medical images received from a particular user or a particular group of users, and wherein the one or more parameters are optimized based at least in part on a contour accuracy metric that estimates a percentage of the automatic target contour data that the particular user or group of users is likely to manually edit.