Patent ID: 7876938

Claim:
A method for segmenting digitized images using a processor to perform the steps comprising: providing a training set comprising a plurality of digitized whole-body images, each image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points on an 3-dimensional grid; providing labels on anatomical landmarks in each image of said training set; aligning each said training set image to a common target volume; generating positive and negative training examples for each landmark by cropping the aligned training volumes into at least one cropping window; using said positive and negative examples to train a detector for each landmark at a plurality of spatial scales ranging from a coarse resolution to a fine resolution; and testing said detector on a validation set of digitized whole-body images, wherein false positives are added into the negative training examples and false negatives are added into the positive training examples, wherein said detector is re-trained using said positive and negative examples.