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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2002
Applicants:
Matthieu Ferrant, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Kelly Lynn Karau, New Berlin, WI (US);
Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Inventors:
Matthieu Ferrant, Saint Remy les Chevreuse, FR;
Kelly Lynn Karau, New Berlin, WI (US);
Saad Ahmed Sirohey, Pewaukee, WI (US);
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC, Waukesha, WI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B006/03 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for detection and classification of nodules (N) in a tomographic image of an anatomical zone of a patient includes segmenting the image to identify therein a region of interest including at least one nodule, and classifying regions of the nodule as one of solid, part-solid, and non-solid.