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본 발명은 형상 사전정보 기반의 그래프 컷을 이용하여, 유사한 밝기 값의 주변 연부조직으로의 누출을 막고 전방 십자인대의 분할 성능을 크게 향상시킬 수 있는 무릎 자기공명영상의 전방십자인대 분할 기술에 관한 것으로, 본 발명에 따른 무릎 자기공명영상의 전방십자인대 분할 방법은 (a) 씨앗정보 추출부를 이용하여, 전체 영상 밝기 분포에서 가우시안 혼합 모델 근사를 수행하여, 어두운 밝기값 영역의 평균치 및 밝은 밝기값 영역의 평균치를 임계치로 설정하여, 씨앗 정보의 객체 후보군 및 배경 후보군을 추출하는 단계, (b) 씨앗정보 추출부를 이용하여, 상기 객체 후보군 및 배경 후보군에 형태학적 연산을 이용하여, 최종 객체 씨앗 정보 및 배경 씨앗 정보를 추출하는 단계 및 (c) 그래프컷 분할부를 이용하여, 추출된 상기 객체 씨앗 정보 및 배경 씨앗 정보로 형상 정보 기반의 그래프 컷을 분할하여, 최종 전방십자인대 볼륨을 분할하는 단계를 포함하는 것을 기술적 특징으로 한다.
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The present invention relates to a technology for segmenting an anterior cruciate ligament from a knee MR image, which can prevent light having similar brightness values from leaking to surrounding soft tissues and significantly improve segmentation performance of the anterior cruciate ligament by using a shape advance information-based graph cut. According to the present invention, the method for segmenting the anterior cruciate ligament from the knee MR image comprises steps of: (a) performing gaussian mixture model estimation in the whole image brightness distribution to set a mean value of a dark brightness value region and a mean value of a bright brightness value region as critical values and extract an object candidate and a background candidate of seed information; (b) extracting final object seed information and background seed information through a morphological operation on the object candidate and the background candidate by using seed information extraction unit; and (c) segmenting the shape advance information-based graph cut into the extracted object seed information and the background seed information by using a graph cut segmentation unit to segment a final anterior cruciate ligament volume.
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The present invention relates to a fusion system of T2-emphasized MR image and diffusion emphasized MR image and a method thereof capable of automatically detecting the location of malignant tumor by correcting rotation conversion distortion, location and size through rigid body matching of T2-emphasized MR image and diffusion emphasized MR image. The fusion method of T2-emphasized MR image and diffusion emphasized MR image comprises the following steps: strengthening similarity between brightness value signal distribution of two images and removing noise to improve the accuracy of conformation of two images of which the brightness value signal distribution and image resolution are different from each other; repeatedly performing rigid body matching for maximizing the normalization mutual information to correct the rotation conversion distortion, location and size of two images of which the similarity is strengthened; producing diffusion coefficient map into a color map to easily recognize malignant tumor in the adjusted image, and mapping the same to a tumor candidate group earned from the T2-emphasized MR image to coordinate the same to the T2-emphasized MR image.
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PURPOSE: A nonrigid registration method and system applying the tumor rigidity constraint and the density correction of each tissue in a dynamic contract enhanced breast MR image are provided to accurately classify a tissue by regularizing a contrast density. CONSTITUTION: A breast region is automatically divided by removing a breast skin and a pectoral(S110). A fuzzy C-means grouping method is used in the divided breast region. A breast tissue is classified into fat, the mammary gland, a tumor, and a blood vessel(S120). The tumor is divided by using a density and a morphological operation(S130). The density is corrected in the fat and the mammary gland(S140). [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) End; (S110) Breast division based on slope and direction information; (S120) Tissue classification using a fuzzy C-means grouping method; (S130) Tumor division based on brightness value and shape information; (S140) Rigid body matching based on normalized mutual information and brightness value correction; (S150) Non-rigid body matching applying tumor rigid constraints;
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PURPOSE: A device and method for detecting a boundary between an inner wall and an outer wall of a left ventricle are provided to set a proper brightness critical range at an image with a low contrast ratio by considering a brightness value distribution of a myocardium according to each data property. CONSTITUTION: A myocardium inner wall extracting unit(210) computes a seed position from a CT(Computed Tomography) image of a heart and extracts the boundary of an initial myocardium inner wall by using a radiation tracking method. A myocardium outer wall extracting unit(220) extracts the boundary of a myocardium outer wall from the CT image of the heart. A boundary correcting unit(230) corrects a boundary between the inner wall and the outer wall of the myocardium.
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PURPOSE: An apparatus and method for automatically extracting a blood vessel and calcification are provided to accurately extract a thin blood vessel without damaging peripheral tissues by removing a complex bone structure on a CTA(Computed Tomography Angiography) image. CONSTITUTION: A partition unit(110) partitions the lower limbs into a preset number of areas by using bone connection information. A matching unit(120) matches the partitioned areas with a rigid body using distance map of CT(Computed Tomography) and CTA. A blood vessel extracting unit(130) extracts the blood vessel by using brightness value information and blood masking. A noise removing unit(140) removes noises due to rigid body matching errors by using a blood vessel based post-processing method. A calcium extracting unit(150) extracts calcium by tracking the extracted blood vessel.
Abstract:
본 발명은 연속적으로 촬영된 컴퓨터 단층촬영(Computed Tomography, CT) 영상의 각 슬라이스를 정합함으로써 연속 CT 영상 내의 폐결절 (Pulmonary Nodule)을 추적 관찰하는 방법 및 그 장치를 제공할 수 있다. 본 발명은 폐를 포함하는 최적경계볼륨의 중심 좌표를 기반으로 기준 영상에 대한 추적 영상의 위치를 보정하는 단계, 기준 영상 및 추적 영상 간의 관상(coronal) 최대강도 투사영상 간의 비교 결과 및 시상(sagittal) 최대강도 투사영상 간의 비교 결과에 기반하여 상기 기준 영상 및 상기 추적 영상을 강체 정합하는 단계, 및 상기 기준 영상 및 상기 추적 영상 내의 폐결절의 형태 정보 및 주변 지역 정보에 기반하여 상기 기준 영상 및 상기 추적 영상을 템플릿 정합하는 단계를 포함할 수 있다. 컴퓨터 단층촬영 영상, 폐결절, 관상 최대강도 투사, 시상 최대강도 투사, 강체 정합, 템플릿 매칭
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PURPOSE: In the site in which the brightness value of the prostate gland similarly appears in the magnetic resonance imaging with the peripheral operations. In the magnetic resonance imaging, the brightness value distribution and gradient information are used. CONSTITUTION: In the magnetic resonance imaging, the activity shape model base prostate gland image automatic segmentation apparatus and the method using the brightness value distribution and gradient information include the falling stage(S310). The step of being created the activity shape model initialized from the magnetic resonance imaging(S330). The step of extracting the surface of the prostate gland domain it predicts the activity shape model based on the information which the activity shape model exhibits(S340).
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PURPOSE: A method and an apparatus of diagnosing prostate cancer using a histopathology image and a magnetic resonance image are provided to improve recognition of a tumor area of a T2-weighted magnetic resonance image by dense correction. CONSTITUTION: A histopathology image correcting unit(11) generates and corrects the entire histopathology image. The histopathology image correcting unit includes a section engaging unit(112) and a resolution lowering unit(114). A magnetic resonance image correcting unit(13) corrects a T2-weighted magnetic resonance image. The magnetic resonance image correcting unit includes a bleeding area extracting unit(132) and a bleeding area substitution unit(134). A matching processing unit(15) includes the first matching unit(152), the second matching unit(154) and the third matching unit(156).