Hologic, Inc.

The State University of New York

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Viatronix Incorporated

Kevin Kreeger

Haili Chui

Xiangwei Zhang

Julian Marshall

Arie E Kaufman

Jin-Long Chen

Jay A Stein

Andrew P Smith

Christopher Ruth

Georgia Hitzke

Ashwini Kshirsagar

Liyang Wei

Jun Ge

Yiheng Zhang

Nikolaos A Gkanatsios

Frank Dachille

Ingmar Bitter

David Mislan

Mark A Prazer

Mark R Wax

Zhengrong Liang

Dongqing Chen

Baoquan Chen

Hanspeter Pfister

Joseph W Marks

Chia Shen

Bin Li

Eric E Smouha

Clemente T Roque

Wei Zhang

Ming Wan

Chukka Srinivas

Sarang Lakare

Zhenrong Liang

Suzanne Yoakum-Stover

A system and method for reviewing a tomosynthesis image data set comprising volumetric image data of a breast, the method comprising, in one embodiment, causing an image or a series of images from the data set to be displayed on a display monitor and selecting or indicating through a user interface an object or region of interest in a presently displayed image of the data set, thereby causing an image from the data set having a best focus measure of the user selected or indicated object or region of interest to be automatically displayed on the display monitor.

System and method for navigating a tomosynthesis stack including automatic focusing

A system and method for displaying and navigating breast tissue is configured for or includes obtaining a plurality of 2D and/or 3D images of a patient's breast; generating a synthesized 2D image of the breast from the obtained images; displaying the synthesized 2D image; receiving a user command, or otherwise detecting through a user interface, a user selection or other indication of an object or region in the synthesized 2D image; and displaying at least a portion of one or more images from the plurality, including a source image and/or most similar representation of the user selected or indicated object or region.

System and method for navigating a tomosynthesis stack using synthesized image data

The invention includes a method including the steps of obtaining a plurality of images, each of the images in the plurality having at least one corresponding region, generating a merged image, the merged image also having the corresponding region. The step of generating includes selecting an image source from the plurality of images to source image data for the corresponding region in the merged image by comparing attributes of the corresponding regions of the plurality of images to identify the image source having preferred attributes.

System and method for generating a 2D image using mammography and/or tomosynthesis image data

Methods, systems, and related computer program products for processing and displaying computer-aided detection (CAD) information associated with medical breast x-ray images, such as breast x-ray tomosynthesis volumes, are described. An interactive graphical user interface for displaying a tomosynthesis data volume is described that includes a display of a two-dimensional composited image having slabbed sub-images spatially localized to marked CAD findings. Also described is a graphical navigation tool for optimized CAD-assisted viewing of the data volume, comprising a plurality of CAD indicator icons running near and along a slice ruler, each CAD indicator icon spanning a contiguous segment of the slice ruler and corresponding in depthwise position and extent to a subset of image slices spanned by the associated CAD finding, each CAD indicator icon including at least one single-slice highlighting mark indicating a respective image slice containing viewable image information corresponding to the associated CAD finding.

Displaying computer-aided detection information with associated breast tomosynthesis image information

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Kevin Kreeger