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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2015
Icad, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
David S. Harding, Austin, TX (US);
Sridharan Kamalakanan, Dallas, TX (US);
Satoshi Kasai, Hachioji, JP;
Shinsuke Katsuhara, Koganei, JP;
James H. Pike, Carrollton, TX (US);
Muhammad F. Sabir, Allen, TX (US);
Jeffrey C. Wehnes, Richardson, TX (US);
iCAD, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Lung segmentation and bone suppression techniques are helpful pre-processing steps prior to radiographic analyzes of the human thorax, as may occur during cancer screenings and other medical examinations. Autonomous lung segmentation may remove spurious boundary pixels from a radiographic image, as well as identify and refine lung boundaries. Thereafter, autonomous bone suppression may identify clavicle, posterior rib, and anterior rib bones using various image processing techniques, including warping and edge detection. The identified clavicle, posterior rib, and anterior rib bones may then be suppressed from the radiographic image to yield a segmented, bone suppressed radiographic image.