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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2020
Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., N. Billerica, MA (US);
Exini Diagnostics Ab, Lund, SE;
Karl Vilhelm Sjöstrand, New York, NY (US);
Jens Filip Andreas Richter, Lund, SE;
Lars Edenbrandt, Lund, SE;
Progenies Pharmaceuticals, Inc., N. Billerica, MA (US);
EXINI Diagnostics AB, Lund, SE;
Abstract
Presented herein are systems and methods that provide for improved computer aided display and analysis of nuclear medicine images. In particular, in certain embodiments, the systems and methods described herein provide improvements to several image processing steps used for automated analysis of bone scan images for assessing cancer status of a patient. For example, improved approaches for image segmentation, hotspot detection, automated classification of hotspots as representing metastases, and computation of risk indices such as bone scan index (BSI) values are provided.