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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Zhimin Huo, Pittsford, NY (US);
Xu Liu, Shanghai, CN;
Zhimin Huo, Pittsford, NY (US);
Xu Liu, Shanghai, CN;
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for determining a candidate lesion region in a digital ultrasound medical image of anatomical tissue. The method includes the steps of: accessing the digital ultrasound medical image of anatomical tissue; applying an anisotropic diffusion filter to the ultrasound image to generate a filtered ultrasound image; performing a normalized cut operation on the filtered ultrasound image to partition the filtered ultrasound image into a plurality of regions; and selecting, from the plurality of regions, at least one region as a candidate lesion region.
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