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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
José Tamez-Peña, Rochester, NY (US);
Saara Marjatta Sofia Totterman, Rochester, NY (US);
Edward Ashton, Webster, NY (US);
Assignee:
VirtualS{tilde over (c)}opics, LLC, Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 ;
Abstract
In a human or animal organ or other region of interest, specific objects, such as liver metastases and brain lesions, serve as indicators, or biomarkers, of disease. In a three-dimensional image of the organ, the biomarkers are identified and quantified both before and after a stimulus is applied, and their reaction to the stimulus is observed. Statistical segmentation techniques are used to identify the biomarker in a first image and to carry the identification over to the remaining images.