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US 2012/0057772 A1Published application
Computer-aided tubing detection
AssigneeCarestream Health, Inc.
InventorZhimin Huo
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Abstract
A method for detecting tubing in a radiographic image of a patient, executed at least in part by a control logic processor, obtains a radiographic image data for a patient and detects one or more possible tube segments in the image. At least one tubing candidate is formed by growing at least one detected tube segment or merging two or more detected tube segments.
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A method for detecting tubing in a radiographic image of a patient, comprising:
- obtaining a radiographic image for a patient;
- detecting at least one tube segment in the image;
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- forming at least one tubing candidate by growing the at least one detected tube segment by identifying a group of consecutive pixels along a fitted curve of the detected tube segment.
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