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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
May. 13, 2020
Applicant:
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Tochigi, JP;
Inventors:
Andrew James Wheaton, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Anuj Sharma, Hudson, OH (US);
Assignee:
CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Tochigi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2006.01); G06N 20/10 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56 (2013.01); G06K 9/00536 (2013.01); G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06N 20/10 (2019.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and method of detecting a characteristic in an image is performed by obtaining, from an image capturing apparatus, raw signal data formed from a plurality of data samples and including a signal of interest captured by the image capturing apparatus and classifying, using a neural network, samples other than the signal of interest using a classifier having been determined using a first parameter based on information about the sample and a second parameter based on information identifying a position of the sample within the raw image data.