METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF TUMOR EXTENT IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES

摘要

A method, computer program product, and system for assessing tumor extent inmedical temporally acquired images. An image acquisition unit (2) may acquireimages, and converts the breast images into digital images. A breast volumesegmentation unit (6) performs volume segmentation on the images obtained bythe image acquisition unit (2), and a border removal unit (8) performs breastborder removal based on data generated by the volume segmentation unit (6). Alesion enhancement unit (10) performs lesion enhancement for image datagenerated by the volume segmentation unit (6). A bounding unit (12) determinesa bounding sphere based on the image data generated by the lesion enhancementunit (10), and a three-dimensional search volume unit (14) determines a three-dimensional search volume within the image data generated by the bounding unit(12). A suppression unit (16) suppresses surrounding structures in the imagedata generated by the three-dimensional search unit.