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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2006
Naira Muradyan, White Plains, NY (US);
Andreas Muehler, Mountain Lakes, NJ (US);
Naira Muradyan, White Plains, NY (US);
Andreas Muehler, Mountain Lakes, NJ (US);
iCAD, Inc., Beavercreek, OH (US);
Abstract
A method, system and computer-readable medium of filtering noise pixels and other extraneous data, including saturated fat tissue and air data in image data is provided. Examples of image data may include but are not limited to magnetic resonance imaging data and computed tomography data. The method includes receiving pixel count for each signal intensity value of the image data; determining a signal intensity value, I, corresponding to a pixel count of a greatest number of pixels, N; setting a noise threshold at a signal intensity value, I, corresponding to a pixel count, N, such that Nis determined based on N; and filtering from the image data one or more pixels with signal intensity values below the noise threshold. Nmay be determined such that N=N/3 or close to N/3.