Method for segmenting small features in an image volume

A system comprising:

• an image acquisition device operative to obtain an image of a movable anatomical feature, the image having an image volume;
• a segmentation module;
• and
• a memory in communication with the image acquisition device and storing program instructions, the segmentation module operative with the program instructions to perform the functions as follows:
• determining one or more image locations at which motion occurred within the image volume;
• estimating motion at each of the one or more image locations;
• correcting one or more motion artifacts in the image volume at each of the one or more image locations where motion was estimated, resulting in the generation of a final motion compensated image volume;
• and.
• segmenting one or more features of interest in the final motion compensated image.