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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2007
Sylvain Bernard, Montigny le Bretonne, FR;
Serge Louis Wilfrid Muller, Guyancourt, FR;
Razvan Gabriel Iordache, Paris, FR;
Gero Peters, Paris, FR;
Sylvain Bernard, Montigny le Bretonne, FR;
Serge Louis Wilfrid Muller, Guyancourt, FR;
Razvan Gabriel Iordache, Paris, FR;
Gero Peters, Paris, FR;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
In a method for the processing of radiological images for the detection of opacities in a radiography image, an algorithm is proposed for detecting opacities according to their contrasts. To determine a contrast that is not over-estimated in each element, an algorithm is proposed for computing the background intensity by means of a sliding-window filtering. This type of sliding-window filtering computes the set of mean values of grey levels about an immediate environment of a region of elements whose size depends on the size of the opacity to be detected. The algorithm considers a background intensity of the region of elements to be the lowest mean value grey levels among the set of mean values of grey levels.
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