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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2010
Applicant:
Piet Dewaele, Berchem, BE;
Inventor:
Piet Dewaele, Berchem, BE;
Assignee:
Agfa HealthCare, Mortsel, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of detecting the orientation of a radiographic image represented by a digital signal representation wherein mathematical moments of the digital signal representation are calculated relative to different reference entities and wherein a decision on the orientation of the radiographic image, for example the position of the thorax edge in a mammographic image, is obtained on the basis of an extreme value (minimum, maximum) of the calculated moments.