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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2017
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Zhennan Yan, South River, NJ (US);
Yiqiang Zhan, Berwyn, PA (US);
Shu Liao, Chester Springs, PA (US);
Yoshihisa Shinagawa, Downingtown, PA (US);
Xiang Sean Zhou, Exton, PA (US);
Matthias Wolf, Coatesville, PA (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A framework for automatic retrieval of medical images. In accordance with one aspect, the framework detects patches in a query image volume that contain at least a portion of an anatomical region of interest by using a first trained classifier. The framework determines disease probabilities by applying a second trained classifier to the detected patches, and selects, from the patches, a sub-set of informative patches with disease probabilities above a pre-determined threshold value. For a given patch from the sub-set of informative patches, the framework retrieves, from a database, patches that are most similar to the given image. Image volumes associated with the retrieved patches are then retrieved from the database. A report based on the retrieved image volumes may then be generated and presented.