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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2010
Zhimin Huo, Pittsford, NY (US);
KE Nie, Rochester, NY (US);
Jing Zhang, HuangPu District, CN;
Fan Xu, Pudong, CN;
Zhimin Huo, Pittsford, NY (US);
Ke Nie, Rochester, NY (US);
Jing Zhang, HuangPu District, CN;
Fan Xu, Pudong, CN;
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for rendering a mammography image. Mammography image data is obtained and stored in a computer-readable electronic memory. A mapping transforms the data to an output data space by estimating a relative amount of dense tissue from the image data; identifying at least a first control point that delineates tissue from non-tissue image content and a second control point that delineates a fatty from a dense tissue region; allocating output image data values in the output data space for the identified fatty and dense tissue content according to the estimated relative amount of dense tissue; and mapping image data values to the allocated output image data values according to the first and second control points. The mammography image is rendered on a display according to the mapping.