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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2019
Zebra Medical Vision Ltd., Shefayim, IL;
Philip Alexander Teare, Brighton, GB;
Zebra Medical Vision Ltd., Shefayim, IL;
Abstract
There is provided a method of computing a likelihood of malignancy in a mammographic image, comprising: receiving a single channel 2D mammographic image including a single pixel intensity value for each pixel thereof, converting the single channel 2D mammographic image into a multi channel 2D mammographic image including multiple pixel intensity value channels for each pixel thereof, computing by a first sub-classifier according to the whole multi channel image, a first score indicative of likelihood of malignancy within the whole multi channel image, computing by a second sub-classifier according to each respective patch extracted from the multi channel image, a respective second score indicative of likelihood of malignancy within each respective patch, and computing by a gating sub-classifier according to the first score and the second scores, an indication of likelihood of malignancy and a location of the malignancy.