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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:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2003
Applicants:
Scott Harrington, Etobicoke, CA;
Wido Menhardt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Daoxian Heidi Zhang, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Scott Harrington, Etobicoke, CA;
Wido Menhardt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Daoxian Heidi Zhang, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for Computer Aided Detection (CAD) of abnormalities in X-ray images in which the features and/or criteria used in the CAD analysis are displayed as coded descriptors on the digital image of the X-ray to provide an indication to a user of the basis underlying the identification of a particular abnormality therefore increasing the reliability of a diagnosis established by the user.