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AssigneeCedara Software Corp.
InventorsFei Mao, Terrance Callahan
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A method and system for recognizing and selecting a portion of an image. The method and system employs user-controlled region growing to select a region within an image. The user manipulates a user input device to interactively increase or decrease the number of iterations performed by a region growing routine. The progress of the growth of the region is displayed to the user on a display. In the case of a three dimensional image, the user may select sectional or volume views of the image within which to monitor the growth of the region. Once the user determines an appropriately sized region has been grown, the remainder of the image is scalpelled away and the selected region is displayed on the display. Alternatively, the region is scalpelled away and the remainder of the image is displayed on the display.
A method of selecting a portion of an image, the portion of the image containing a feature of interest, a view of the image being displayed on a display, the image being generated from an image-defining array containing image data corresponding to image properties at points within a coordinate system containing the image, the image-defining array being stored by an image processing system, and a user having a user interface for interacting with the image processing system, the method comprising the steps of:
An image processing system for selecting a portion of an image, the portion of the image containing a feature of interest, a view of the image being displayed on a display, the image being generated from an image-defining array containing image data corresponding to image properties at points within a coordinate system containing the image, the image-defining array being stored by the image processing system, a seed point in the image defining array being determined based upon the selection by a user of a pixel in the view of the image being displayed, the image processing system comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium carrying program means for selecting a portion of an image, the portion of the image containing a feature of interest, a view of the image being displayed on a display, the image being generated from an image-defining array containing image data corresponding to image properties at points within a coordinate system containing the image, the image-defining array being stored by an image processing system, and a user having a user interface for interaction with the image processing system, the computer program product comprising:
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