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Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2016
Applicant:

The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);

Inventors:

Chandra M. Sehgal, Wayne, PA (US);

Santosh S. Venkatesh, Swarthmore, PA (US);

Laith R. Sultan, Exton, PA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/0825 (2013.01); A61B 5/4312 (2013.01); A61B 5/7275 (2013.01); A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); G16H 30/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/20 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01);
Abstract

A method for ultrasound diagnosis includes determining a first risk of malignancy based on a human assessment of a first set of features of one or more ultrasound images of a target; determining a second risk of malignancy based on an automatically extracted second set of features of the one or more ultrasound images; determining at least one overall risk value based on the first risk of malignancy and the second risk of malignancy; and characterizing the at least one overall risk value as one of a high confidence assessment or a low confidence assessment.


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