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- Patent Title: Multiple landmark detection in medical images based on hierarchical feature learning and end-to-end training
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Application No.: US15591157Application Date: 2017-05-10
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Publication No.: US10210613B2Publication Date: 2019-02-19
- Inventor: Daguang Xu , Tao Xiong , David Liu , Shaohua Kevin Zhou , Mingqing Chen , Dorin Comaniciu
- Applicant: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
- Applicant Address: DE Erlangen
- Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
- Current Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Erlangen
- Main IPC: G06T7/00
- IPC: G06T7/00 ; G06T7/70 ; G06K9/00 ; G06N3/08 ; G06T7/73 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
The present embodiments relate to detecting multiple landmarks in medical images. By way of introduction, the present embodiments described below include apparatuses and methods for detecting landmarks using hierarchical feature learning with end-to-end training. Multiple neural networks are provided with convolutional layers for extracting features from medical images and with a convolutional layer for learning spatial relationships between the extracted features. Each neural network is trained to detect different landmarks using a different resolution of the medical images, and the convolutional layers of each neural network are trained together with end-to-end training to learn appearance and spatial configuration simultaneously. The trained neural networks detect multiple landmarks in a test image iteratively by detecting landmarks at different resolutions, using landmarks detected a lesser resolutions to detect additional landmarks at higher resolutions.
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