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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2004
Robert August Kaucic, Jr., Niskayuna, NY (US);
Ricardo Scott Avila, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Timothy Patrick Kelliher, Scotia, NY (US);
Daniel James Blezek, Niskayuna, NY (US);
William Macomber Leue, Albany, NY (US);
Robert August Kaucic, Jr., Niskayuna, NY (US);
Ricardo Scott Avila, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Timothy Patrick Kelliher, Scotia, NY (US);
Daniel James Blezek, Niskayuna, NY (US);
William MaComber Leue, Albany, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and a method for detecting an object, such as an explosive device or material, located within a closed article, such as a piece of luggage or a parcel. The system includes an acquisition subsystem for acquiring information pertaining to a specific object, a reconstruction subsystem for reconstructing acquired information pertaining to the specific object into image data, and a computer-aided detection subsystem adapted for identifying the specific object through the use of differential operators. The method includes obtaining image data of the one object, computing a differential operator for each voxel of the image data, computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors for each of the voxels, and computing a scalar function of the eigenvalues to ascertain whether each of the voxels represents a portion of the one object.