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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2016
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Chandra M. Sehgal, Wayne, PA (US);
Santosh S. Venkatesh, Swarthmore, PA (US);
Laith R. Sultan, Exton, PA (US);
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
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.