Patent ID: 8970581
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for segmenting an object in a volume image, the method executed at least in part on a computer and comprising: rendering the volume image data to a two-dimensional display screen showing first, second, and third mutually orthogonal planes in the two-dimensional rendering; accessing one or more operator instructions that identify a plurality of seed points on the rendered volume image, the identified plurality of seed points simultaneously covering the first, second, and third mutually orthogonal planes, and the identified plurality of seed points including geometry and intensity information of the object; converting two-dimensional coordinates of the identified plurality of seed points displayed on the display screen to three-dimensional seed-point coordinates relating to the first, second, and third mutually orthogonal planes; segmenting the volume image according to the converted three-dimensional seed-point coordinates and the geometry and intensity information; while segmenting, displaying at least one intermediate segmentation result on the display screen, relative to the first, second, and third mutually orthogonal planes; and displaying a final segmentation result on the display screen, relative to the first, second, and third mutually orthogonal planes.