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- Patent Title: Automated centerline extraction method and generation of corresponding analytical expression and use thereof
- Patent Title (中): 自动化中心线提取方法及相应的分析表达及其应用
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Application No.: US12673089Application Date: 2008-05-30
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Publication No.: US09047685B2Publication Date: 2015-06-02
- Inventor: Vikash Ravi Goel , Donald P. Greenberg , Roy K. Greenberg
- Applicant: Vikash Ravi Goel , Donald P. Greenberg , Roy K. Greenberg
- Applicant Address: US OH Cleveland
- Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Current Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Cleveland
- Agency: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2008/065198 WO 20080530
- International Announcement: WO2008/150945 WO 20081211
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T7/60 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T17/30

Abstract:
A computer implemented method (350) for determining a centerline of a three-dimensional tubular structure is described. The method includes providing an edge-detected data set of voxels that characterize a boundary of the tubular structure according to a three-dimensional voxel data set for the tubular structure (360). A gradient field of a distance transformation is computed for the edge-detected dataset (380). A voxel data set corresponding to a centerline of the tubular structure is computed according to derivative of gradient field (390).
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