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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2023
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US);
Maryellen Giger, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Lindsay Douglas, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Deepa Sheth, Chicago, IL (US);
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method for electronically removing a lesion from a three-dimensional (3D) medical image includes segmenting each two-dimensional (2D) slice of a sequence of 2D slices of the 3D medical image to identify the lesion within any one or more of the 2D slices. The method includes deleting the lesion from each 2D slice in which the lesion was identified to create a sequence of lesion-deleted slices. The method includes constructing, based on the sequence of lesion-deleted slices, a lesion-deleted intensity-based projection image, such as a lesion-deleted maximum-intensity projection image. The method includes processing the lesion-deleted intensity-based projection image to obtain a background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) score. The method excludes high-intensity voxels that indicate the presence of a lesion, and thus are not indicative of BPE.
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