A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING AND AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF CANDIDATE ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES IN MEDICAL IMAGES

摘要

A system and method for determining the presence or absence of candidate objects in a digital image by computing (20) a gradient field of the digital image and then applying predetermined filters (30) to the gradient field to obtain a response image which can be further processed to detect the objects (38). The application of these filters to the digital image can be performed by convolution and the filters can be adapted based on the shape of the object to be searched.