Automatic engine for 3d object generation from volumetric scan data and method

Abstract

A method of generating a 3 dimensional object includes providing a volumetric scan of a study object as a series of image slices. An image segmentation algorithm is used to image segment each image slice into at least a first region and a second region, the first region of each image slice corresponds to a first object of the study object, and the second region of each image slice corresponds to a second object of the study object. The first region is selected from a first image slice. Regions of adjacent image slices are statistically compared to the first region of the first image slice using a comparison of touching regions to designate corresponding first regions in the adjacent image slices. The first region of each image slice of the series of image slices corresponding to the first object is binned to form a first binned object. A 3 dimensional object of the first binned object is formed.

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