Patent Document ID: 9336457
Application ID: 14096206

Base Claim:
1. A method for adaptive region prediction, comprising: receiving, by a processor, a set of exemplar images including annotated first landmarks; obtaining, by the processor, user definitions of first anatomical regions in the exemplar images; detecting, by the processor, second landmarks in a subject image; computing, by the processor, anatomical similarity scores between the subject image and the exemplar images based on the first and second landmarks; and predicting, by the processor, a second anatomical region in the subject image by adaptively combining coordinates of points representing the first anatomical regions weighted by coefficients derived from the anatomical similarity scores.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising: annotating a set of the first landmarks in each exemplar image; training detectors for the annotated first landmarks, and using the trained detectors to automatically detect the second landmarks in the subject image.