SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLON WALL EXTRACTION IN THE PRESENCE OF TAGGED FECAL MATTER OR COLLAPSED COLON REGIONS

摘要

A system and method for extracting a colon wall are provided. The method comprises: placing seeds in an image of a patient abdomen; determining features of the seeds and voxels neighboring the seeds; and performing a region growing of the colon wall using a classifier trained to distinguish between the colon wall and nearby objects based on the features of the seeds and voxels neighboring the seeds.