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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:
Jul. 13, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Applicants:
Zhimin Huo, Pittsford, NY (US);
Hui Wang, Pudong, CN;
Xu Liu, Shanghai, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for detecting and analyzing candidate lesions in a magnetic resonance image of a breast. The method includes the steps of: accessing a plurality of temporal magnetic resonance images of the breast; identifying candidate lesions by performing a temporal pattern analysis of the plurality of images to produce temporal features based on an uptake phase and a washout phase; performing a morphological operation on the candidate lesions to produce morphological features; and classifying the candidate lesions using the morphological features and temporal features to produce classified candidate lesions.