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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2019
Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US);
Jin-Long Chen, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Haili Chui, Fremont, CA (US);
Nikolaos Gkanatsios, Danbury, CT (US);
Kevin Kreeger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Julian Marshall, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Mislan, Lexington, MA (US);
Mark A. Prazer, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiangwei Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for displaying and navigating breast tissue is configured for or includes obtaining a plurality of 2D and/or 3D images of a patient's breast; generating a synthesized 2D image of the breast from the obtained images; displaying the synthesized 2D image; receiving a user command, or otherwise detecting through a user interface, a user selection or other indication of an object or region in the synthesized 2D image; and displaying at least a portion of one or more images from the plurality, including a source image and/or most similar representation of the user selected or indicated object or region.