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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roger S Gaborski, Pittsford, NY (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382132 ; 382228 ;
Abstract
The body part classification of a radiographic image is a key component of systems that produce an optimal tone scale curve for either hard copy or soft copy presentation. A method automatically determines the body part class based on a subset of relevant features and a probabilistic reasoning unit (PRU). The reasoning unit estimates the most probable body part class based on probabilistic information that associates a given class with the joint probability of the detection of a subset of features and their spatial relationships.