Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for segmenting digital medical image
- Patent Title (中): 分割数字医学图像的方法
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Application No.: US11923201Application Date: 2007-10-24
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Publication No.: US08290223B2Publication Date: 2012-10-16
- Inventor: Marek Suliga , Piet Dewaele , Rudi Deklerck , Edgard Nyssen , Gert Behiels
- Applicant: Marek Suliga , Piet Dewaele , Rudi Deklerck , Edgard Nyssen , Gert Behiels
- Applicant Address: BE Mortsel
- Assignee: Agfa HealthCare N.V.
- Current Assignee: Agfa HealthCare N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: BE Mortsel
- Agency: Houston & Associates, LLP
- Priority: EP06122899 20061025
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract:
A Markov Random Field (MRF)-based technique is described for performing clustering of images characterized by poor or limited data. The proposed method is a statistical classification model that labels the image pixels based on the description of their statistical and contextual information. Apart from evaluating the pixel statistics that originate from the definition of the K-means clustering scheme, the model expands the analysis by the description of the spatial dependence between pixels and their labels (context), hence leading to the reduction of the inhomogeneity of the segmentation output with respect to the result of pure K-means clustering.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080101678A1 Method for Segmenting Digital Medical Image Public/Granted day:2008-05-01
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