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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2022
Applicant:
The Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Inventors:
Robert Allen Makin, III, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Steven Michael Durbin, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/444 (2013.01); A61B 5/0059 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30088 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of distinguishing benign and malignant skin conditions includes extracting a numerical value corresponding to an order parameter from an image of skin having a pigmented region. The numerical value of the order parameter may be utilized to assess the likelihood that a skin lesion is benign or malignant. The precise value may also be utilized to assess severity, which may include detecting changes in a skin lesion over time.