A method for determining the location, shape and orientation of a tumor in a medical image includes finding a plurality of spatial extrema μ of a D-dimensional spatial signal f for a set of bandwidths H by performing mean shift-based gradient-ascent iterations for a set of bandwidths H and then determining a D-dimensional spread and orientation of the signal about each extrema μ by estimating a covariance Σ of the signal f for each extrema μ. The optimal estimate of μ and Σ is determined by performing a Jensen-Shannon divergence on the full set of μ and Σ.
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