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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:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2002
Applicants:
Michael J. Collins, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Richard A. Mitchell, Springboro, OH (US);
Steven W. Worrell, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Inventors:
Michael J. Collins, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Richard A. Mitchell, Springboro, OH (US);
Steven W. Worrell, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Assignee:
ICad, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G01N 23/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention provides an information fusion method for multiple indicators of cancers detected with multiple channels. Each channel consists of specifically tuned detectors, features, classifiers and Bayes networks. The outputs of the Bayes networks are probabilities of malignancy for the detections passing the corresponding classifier.