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Method of segmenting a radiographic image into diagnostically relevant and diagnostically irrelevant regions

  • US 7,391,895 B2
  • Filed: 07/24/2003
  • Issued: 06/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of segmenting a radiographic image into diagnostically relevant and diagnostically irrelevant regions comprising:

  • acquiring a digital radiographic image including a matrix of rows and columns of pixels;

    generating an initial background map using an initial background left point;

    detecting a foreground map of said image using the initial background map;

    regenerating a regenerated background map of said image;

    validating the regenerated background map of said image;

    merging the regenerated background map and foreground map of said image as diagnostically irrelevant regions; and

    extracting an anatomy map of said image as the diagnostically relevant region.

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