EXTRACTING BULLOUS EMPHYSEMA AND DIFFUSE EMPHYSEMA IN E.G. CT VOLUME IMAGES OF THE LUNGS

摘要

An processor (118) includes a bullous emphysema identifier (206) that processes voxels of the volumetric image data and ident ifies voxels corresponding to bullous emphysema a two dimensional projection image generator (206) that generates a 2D bullous emphysema projection image based on the voxels corresponding to bullous emphysema wherein an intensity of a contour of a bulla in the 2D bullous emphysema projection image is based on a size of the bulla and a feature highlighter (210) that highlights the bullous emphysema in the 2D bullous emphysema projection image using second first indicia.