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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2008
Michael J. Collins, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Senthil Periaswamy, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Robert V. Uitert, Hollis, NH (US);
Justin Kunz, Milford, NH (US);
Michael J. Collins, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Senthil Periaswamy, Beavercreek, OH (US);
Robert V. Uitert, Hollis, NH (US);
Justin Kunz, Milford, NH (US);
iCAD, Inc., Nashua, NH (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are presented that improve a radiologist's ability to identify polyps by automatically and more accurately detecting and displaying colonic residue such as tagged or untagged stool or colonic fluid in medical images of the colorectal region. A virtual colonography imaging system obtains medical imagery of the colon. Improved computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithms identify colonic residue in the imagery by calculating feature vectors of and using statistical classification methods to classify regions of colonic residue to distinguish them from false positives.