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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2014
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Thomas Buelow, Grosshansdorf, DE;
Martin Bergtholdt, Hamburg, DE;
Rafael Wiemker, Kisdorf, DE;
Kirsten Regina Meetz, Hamburg, DE;
Joerg Sabczynski, Norderstedt, DE;
Dominik Berjamin Kutra, Hamburg, DE;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention provides for means for linking breast lesion locations across imaging studies. In particular, a generic three-dimensional representation of the female breast is used. Automatic translation of the lesion location into standard clinical terminology and aligning the breast model with individual patient images is comprised. Moreover, a mechanism for linking image locations showing a lesion to a location in the breast model is presented. If desired, a region of interest can be calculated by a region of interest definition module that predicts a region of interest of a known lesion in terms of the breast model representation in a new imaging study.