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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2021
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Indrajit Saha, Gurgaon, IN;
Ulrich Wolfgang Katscher, Norderstedt, DE;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method of medical imaging. The method comprises: receiving () an echo planar diffusion weighted magnetic resonance image () of a region of interest () descriptive of breast tissue; receiving () a fat suppressed T2 weighted magnetic resonance image () descriptive of the region of interest; segmenting () the echo planar diffusion weighted magnetic resonance image to identify high diffusion rate regions (); segmenting () the fat suppressed T2 weighted magnetic resonance image to identify tissue regions (); identifying () a portion of the tissue regions as advisory regions () by inputting the high diffusion rate regions and the tissue regions into an image processing module; and providing () the advisory regions as a segmentation of the fat suppressed T2 weighted magnetic resonance image.