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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore, IN;
Pavan Kumar Veerabhadra Annangi, Bangalore, IN;
Xiaoxing Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
Vidya Pundalik Kamath, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Fei Zhao, Schenectady, NY (US);
Vivek Prabhakar Vaidya, Bangalore, IN;
Soma Biswas, Karnataka, IN;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for detecting lesions in ultrasound images. The method includes acquiring ultrasound information, determining discriminative descriptors that describe the texture of a candidate lesion region, and classifying each of the discriminative descriptors as one of a top boundary pixel, a lesion interior pixel, a lower boundary pixel, or a normal tissue pixel. The method also includes determining a pattern of transitions between the classified discriminative descriptors, and classifying the candidate lesion region as a lesion or normal tissue based on the pattern of transitions between the classified discriminative descriptors.