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Method and system for airway measurement

  • US 7,116,810 B2
  • Filed: 11/27/2002
  • Issued: 10/03/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for measuring lung airways from acquired image data comprising:

  • isolating by at least one segmentation process a given airway of interest;

    fitting an inner ellipse to an inner boundary of the given airway and an outer ellipse to an outer boundary of the airway structure using statistical techniques at a given point in the airway; and

    ,generating measurements of the given airway using the inner and outer ellipses.

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