Arch Development Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Takehiro Ema

Kunio Doi

Robert M Nishikawa

Hiroyuki Yoshida

Katsuyuki Taguchi

Shinich Yamada

A medical information processing system for supporting diagnosis, capable of displaying an original image and a minified image over the original image without being interfered to each other, capable of optimal man-power & time saving configurations and methods, capable of realizing an optimal classifying technique for doctor's interpretation and CAD-processed result, and capable of optimizing efficiency in forming accurate interpretation report by using PACS in a mass survey. The system includes: a detecting unit for detecting location of abnormality from a first medical image in accordance with a predetermined algorithm; an image forming unit for forming a second medical image in which a marker indicating the location of the abnormality is overlapped; and a display unit for displaying the first medical image and the second medical image in an optimally efficient way.

Medical information processing system for supporting diagnosis

A method for automated detection of abnormal anatomic regions, wherein a mammogram is digitized to produce a digital image and the digital image is processed using local edge gradient analysis and linear pattern analysis in addition to feature extraction routines to identify abnormal anatomic regions. Noise reduction filtering and pit-filling/spike-removal filtering techniques are also provided. Multiple difference imaging techniques are also used in which difference images employing different filter characteristics are obtained and processing results logically OR'ed to identify abnormal anatomic regions. In another embodiment the processing results with and without noise reduction filtering are logically AND'ed to improve detection sensitivity. Also, in another embodiment the wavelet transform is utilized in the identification and detection of abnormal regions. The wavelet transform is preferably used in conjunction with the difference imaging technique with the results of the two techniques being logically OR'ed.

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Takehiro Ema