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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2009
Applicant:
Tom Bertens, Perk, BE;
Inventor:
Tom Bertens, Perk, BE;
Assignee:
Agfa HealthCare NV, Mortsel, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A region of interest in the image is determined and for each pixel in each location (x,y) in that region of interest a value h(x,y) is computed representing the amount of dense tissue below said pixel as wherein p(x,y) represents the pixel value of a pixel at location (x,y) in said digital mammographic image, pis a reference fat pixel value, μ,μare the linear attenuation coefficients of fat tissue and dense tissue and E is the mono-energetic energy value of the x-ray source at image recording, whereby E and pare derived from said digital mammographic image representation.