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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Giovanni John Jacques Palma, Chaville, FR;
Pedro Luis Esquinas Fernandez, Etobicoke, CA;
Paul Dufort, Toronto, CA;
Thomas Binder, Paris, FR;
Arkadiusz Sitek, Ashland, MA (US);
Dana Levanony, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yi-Qing Wang, Paris, FR;
Omid Bonakdar Sakhi, North York, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A lesion detection and classification artificial intelligence (AI) pipeline comprising a plurality of trained machine learning (ML) computer models is provided. First ML model(s) process an input volume of medical images (VOI) to determine whether VOI depicts a predetermined amount of an anatomical structure. The AI pipeline determines whether criteria, such as a predetermined amount of an anatomical structure of interest being depicted in the input volume, are satisfied by output of the first ML model(s). If so, lesion processing operations are performed including: second ML modal(s) processing the VOI to detect lesions which correspond to the anatomical structure of interest; third ML model(s) performing lesion segmentation and combining of lesion contours associated with a same lesion; and fourth ML models processing the listing of lesions to classify the lesions. The AI pipeline outputs the listing of lesions and the classifications for downstream computing system processing.