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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:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2004
Applicants:
Jianming Liang, Paoli, PA (US);
Luca Bogoni, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventors:
Jianming Liang, Paoli, PA (US);
Luca Bogoni, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for characterizing an image. The method selects one or more toboggan potentials from the image, or a portion thereof, to be tobogganed. It toboggans the selected toboggan potentials to generate one or more toboggan parameters, forming at least one toboggan cluster using one or more of the toboggan parameters. It also selects one or more of the toboggan clusters to compute at least one feature parameter to characterize the image or a portion thereof.