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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2015
Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, CA;
James Mainprize, Toronto, CA;
Olivier Alonzo-Proulx, Toronto, CA;
Martin Yaffe, Toronto, CA;
Gordon Mawdsley, Toronto, CA;
Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, CA;
Abstract
Systems and methods for generating imaging biomarkers that indicate detectability or conspicuity of lesions that may be present in mammographic images are provided. In general, a task-based measure of a signal-to-noise ratio ('SNR') measurement of a detection task is computed over a number of small regions-of-interest ('ROIs') in an image, and the computed parameter is used to predict what detection rates should be if a lesion was present in the image. As such, the computed parameter can be used to define an imaging biomarker that is a “masking measure” that indicates the degree of conspicuity of lesions that may be present in a given a mammographic image.