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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2005
Lilla Boroczky, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Kwok Pun Lee, Flushing, NY (US);
Luyin Zhao, White Plains, NY (US);
Lilla Boroczky, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Kwok Pun Lee, Flushing, NY (US);
Luyin Zhao, White Plains, NY (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method for computer aided detection (CAD) and classification of regions of interest detected within HRCT medical image data includes post-CAD machine learning techniques applied to maximize specificity and sensitivity of identification of a region/volume as being a nodule or non-nodule. The regions are identified by a CAD process, and automatically segmented. A feature pool is identified and extracted from each segmented region, and processed by genetic algorithm to identify an optimal feature subset, which subset is used to train the support vector machine to classify candidate region/volumes found within non-training data.