Systems, methods and apparatus of handling structures in three-dimensional images
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1. A computer-accessible medium to organize anatomically related parts, the medium comprising:
- a workflow system operable to receive a medical image and at least one user input from an external source;
a first component providing containers to a plurality of graphical objects from explicit or implicit structure creation in accordance with the user input, the first component yielding organized structures, the first component operably coupled to the workflow system;
a second component providing graphical object creation and contouring of anatomical regions from the medical image in accordance with the user input, the second component yielding graphical objects, the second component operably coupled to the workflow system; and
a third component associating the organized structures with graphical objects and the contoured anatomical regions, the third component operably coupled to the first component and the second component.
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Abstract
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, a structure manager explicitly creates a container of graphical objects of anatomical regions by adding a structure, or the structure manager implicitly creates graphical objects of a group of anatomical regions through an organ segmentation process.
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1. A computer-accessible medium to organize anatomically related parts, the medium comprising:
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a workflow system operable to receive a medical image and at least one user input from an external source;
a first component providing containers to a plurality of graphical objects from explicit or implicit structure creation in accordance with the user input, the first component yielding organized structures, the first component operably coupled to the workflow system;
a second component providing graphical object creation and contouring of anatomical regions from the medical image in accordance with the user input, the second component yielding graphical objects, the second component operably coupled to the workflow system; and
a third component associating the organized structures with graphical objects and the contoured anatomical regions, the third component operably coupled to the first component and the second component. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer-accessible medium to manage anatomically related parts, the medium comprising:
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providing containers to a plurality of graphical objects from explicit or implicit structure creation in accordance with user input, yielding organized structures;
providing graphical object creation and contouring of anatomical regions from the medical image in accordance with the user input, yielding graphical objects;
associating the organized structures with the graphical objects and the contoured anatomical regions, and segmenting workflow in at least one of two manners;
a first manner that highly supports user interaction adapted for organs that are difficult to fully segment and a second manner that supports batch mode adapted for organs whose segmentation is relatively long. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to organize anatomically related parts into structure groups, the executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:
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creating a plurality of structures from predefined data;
creating a plurality of graphical objects of related anatomical regions;
associating the plurality of graphical objects with the plurality of structures;
combining the plurality of structures of the associated graphical objects;
storing the plurality of graphical objects of the related anatomical regions; and
retrieving the plurality of graphical objects of the related anatomical regions.
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15. A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to manage groups of graphical objects of anatomical regions, the executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:
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creating a plurality of graphical objects of anatomical regions from predefined data; and
creating a graphical object from user-defined data. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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