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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2005
Nathan D. Cahill, West Henrietta, NY (US);
Shoupu Chen, Rochester, NY (US);
Nathan D. Cahill, West Henrietta, NY (US);
Shoupu Chen, Rochester, NY (US);
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for detecting undesirable images within an image sequence, comprising the steps of receiving the image sequence; computing one or more associated image characteristics for a group of images, wherein the group of images includes at least one image from the image sequence; identifying any undesirable group of images based on the computed image characteristics; collecting undesirable groups of images into at least one collection; receiving a threshold value of a minimum number of undesirable images; and flagging as undesirable only images that belong to one or more collections that have at least the threshold value of undesirable images.