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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2001
Leon Kaufman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mikhail Mineyev, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shelley Powers, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
David Goldhaber, San Mateo, CA (US);
Leon Kaufman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mikhail Mineyev, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shelley Powers, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
David Goldhaber, San Mateo, CA (US);
AccuImage Diagnostics Corp., S. San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Software, methods and user interfaces for viewing and generating a lung report. In exemplary methods, a first baseline image is analyzed to localize lung nodules. The lung nodule information can be stored and used to relocate the previously localized lung nodules in a second, follow-up imaging scan. The follow-up scan can be analyzed—either manually or automatically—to generate statistics for the lung nodules localized in the follow-up scan. Information derived from the baseline scan can be used to ease the localization of the lung nodules in the follow-up scan. In some exemplary methods, both the baseline scan and follow-up scan are displayed and the nodules are selected for comparison. Typically, the graphical user interface can display a third, composite image that displays the change of size of the nodules.