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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2014
Applicant:
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokjo OT, JP;
Inventor:
Mithun Das Gupta, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
RICOH CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/7264 (2013.01); A61B 5/0075 (2013.01); A61B 5/445 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for erythema grading for psoriasis. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating Skellam distribution statistics related to differences between readout voltages for one or more psoriasis regions for a patient and a normal skin region for the patient; and generating an erythema grading classification for erythema regions in psoriasis using the Skellam distribution statistics as feature vectors.