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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:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2007
Applicants:
Menahem Abramov, Jerusalem, IL;
Philippe Nathan Bamberger, Jerusalem, IL;
Inventors:
Menahem Abramov, Jerusalem, IL;
Philippe Nathan Bamberger, Jerusalem, IL;
Assignee:
Siemens Israel Ltd., Jerusalem, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Method of segmenting mammography image comprising steps of: scanning along row from outermost pixel towards the breast and comparing grayscale gradient across adjacent pixels until a significant gradient is determined; confirming that variation in gradient indicates a first true boundary pixel by ascertaining gradient across subsequent pixels is still significant; iteratively repeating steps of: