Method of and a system for adapting a geometric model using multiple partial transformations

• US 8,260,586 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2006
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Ecabert, Olivier, Peters, Jochen, Weese, Juergen
• Primary Examiner(s): Jacob, Mary C
• Application Number:
  US12/067,841
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037154A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,176 Days
• Field of Search: 703/6, 703/2
• US Class Current: 703/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10072 Tomographic images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30048 Heart; Cardiac
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/12 Edge-based segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/149 involving deformable models, e.g. active contour models

Abstract

The invention relates to a method (100) of adapting a geometric model to an image data comprising determining a first partial transformation for mapping a first part of the geometric model into the image data and a second partial transformation for mapping a second part of the geometric model into the image data. By determining the first partial transformation of the first part of the geometric model and the second partial transformation of the second part of the geometric model, the geometric model can assume more shapes and therefore can be more accurately adapted to an object comprised in the image data.

Claims

1. An adaptation method of adapting a geometric model that includes a first part, a second part and a transition region between the first part and the second part to image data executed by a hardware processor of an adaptation system, comprising:

determining, by the hardware processor, a first partial transformation for mapping the first part of the geometric model into the image data;

determining, by the hardware processor, a second partial transformation for mapping the second part of the geometric model into the image data, wherein the first and second partial transformations, when applied, create an adapted geometric model based on the geometric model;

optimizing, by the hardware processor, the first and second partial transformations to maintain consistency of the adapted geometric model in the transition region between the first part and the second part of the geometric model; and

applying, by the hardware processor, the first partial transformation and the second partial transformation.

2. An adaptation method as claimed in claim 1 wherein a cost function is a function of the first partial transformation and of the second partial transformation and wherein the optimizing of the first partial transformation and the second partial transformation is based on optimizing the cost function.

3. An adaptation method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the cost function is a function of a global transformation.

4. An adaptation method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the transition region is comprised in the intersection of the first part and of the second part and wherein the optimizing step comprises determining a global transformation in the transition region on basis of the first partial transformation and of the second partial transformation.

5. An adaptation method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising constructing a global transformation for mapping the geometric model into the image data using the first partial transformation and the second partial transformation.

6. An adaptation method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second part of the geometric model comprises a tubular structure and the second partial transformation is defined on basis of a shaping partial transformation for shaping a centerline of the tubular structure and/or or of a scaling partial transformation for scaling the radius of a cross-section of the tubular structure.

7. An adaptation method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first partial transformation is an affine partial transformation.

8. An adaptation method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a segmenting step for segmenting the image data.

9. An adaptation system including a hardware processor for adapting a geometric model that includes a first part, a second part and a transition region between the first part and the second part to image data, the adaptation system comprising:

an optimizing unit implemented by the hardware processor and configured to determine a first partial transformation for mapping the first part of the geometric model into the image data and a second partial transformation for mapping the second part of the geometric model into the image data, wherein the first and second partial transformations, when applied, create an adapted geometric model based on the geometric model, the optimizing unit further configured to optimize the first and second partial transformations to maintain consistency of the adapted geometric model in the transition region between the first part and the second part of the geometric model; and

an adapting step unit implemented by the hardware processor and configured to apply the first partial transformation and the second partial transformation.

10. An image acquisition system for acquiring an image data and adapting a geometric model that includes a first part, a second part and a transition region between the first part and the second part to the image data, comprising:

an image acquisition system unit including hardware components for acquiring the image data; and

an adaptation system for adapting the geometric model to the image data comprising an optimizing unit for determining a first partial transformation for mapping the first part of the geometric model into the image data, wherein the first partial transformation, when applied, creates an adapted geometric model based on the geometric model, the adaptation system further optimizing the first partial transformation to maintain consistency of the adapted geometric model in the transition region between the first part and the second part of the geometric model, and a second partial transformation for mapping the second part of the geometric model into the image data; and

an adapting step unit for applying the first partial transformation and the second partial transformation.

11. A workstation comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

a user interface; and

an adaptation system for adapting a geometric model that includes a first part, a second part and a transition region between the first part and the second part to an image data comprising an optimizing unit for determining a first partial transformation for mapping the first part of the geometric model into the image data, wherein the first partial transformation, when applied, creates an adapted geometric model based on the geometric model, the adaptation system further optimizing the first partial transformation to maintain consistency of the adapted geometric model in the transition region between the first part and the second part of the geometric model, and a second partial transformation for mapping the second part of the geometric model into the image data; and

an adapting step unit for applying the first partial transformation and the second partial transformation.

12. A computer program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium product to be loaded by a computer arrangement, comprising instructions for adapting a geometric model that includes a first part, a second part and a transition region between the first part and the second part to an image data, the computer arrangement comprising a processing unit and memory, the computer program product, after being loaded, providing said processing unit with the capability to:

determine a first partial transformation for mapping the first part of the geometric model into the image data and a second partial transformation for mapping the second part of the geometric model into the image data, wherein the first and second partial transformations, when applied, create an adapted geometric model based on the geometric model;

optimize the first and second partial transformations to maintain consistency of the adapted geometric model in the transition region between the first part and the second part of the geometric model; and

apply the first partial transformation and the second partial transformation.