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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:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2009
Applicants:
Andrew Paul Smith, Lexington, MA (US);
Biao Chen, Newark, DE (US);
Zhenxue Jing, Southbury, CT (US);
Inventors:
Andrew Paul Smith, Lexington, MA (US);
Biao Chen, Newark, DE (US);
Zhenxue Jing, Southbury, CT (US);
Assignee:
Hologic, Inc., Bedford, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems that automatically identify breast characteristics such as x-ray density and breast texture from initial x-ray images of the breast and automatically adjust process parameter setting of image processing algorithms that operate on the initial images to derive processing images suitable for display or further processing.