Automated surface-based anatomical analysis based on atlas-based segmentation of medical imaging
AssigneeThe Johns Hopkins University
InventorsMichael I. Miller, Susumu Mori, Anqi Qiu
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Abstract
A non-invasive imaging system, including: a non-invasive imaging scanner; a signal processing unit in communication with the imaging scanner to receive an imaging signal from a subject under observation; and a data storage unit in communication with the signal processing unit, wherein the data storage unit stores template data corresponding to a tissue region of the subject, and wherein the signal processing unit is adapted to generate a surface map to encode a property of a subvolume of the tissue region using the template data.
Claims29
A non-invasive imaging system, comprising:
- a non-invasive imaging scanner;
- a signal processing unit in communication with said imaging scanner to receive an imaging signal from a subject under observation;
- and
- a data storage unit in communication with said signal processing unit, wherein said data storage unit stores template data corresponding to a tissue region of said subject, and
- wherein said signal processing unit is adapted to generate a surface map to encode a property of a subvolume of said tissue region using said template data.
A workstation, comprising:
- a receiving engine to receive an imaging signal showing a tissue region from a subject and template data corresponding to said tissue region from at least one of a non-invasive imaging system, one or more data storage devices, a software simulation executed by one or more processors, or combinations thereof;
- and
- a processing engine to generate a surface map to encode a property of a subvolume of said tissue region in said imaging signal using said template data.
A method of processing images, comprising:
- receiving template data corresponding to a region having a subvolume and an image showing said region;
- and
- generating a surface map to encode a property of said subvolume of said region using said template data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.