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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
May. 09, 2011
Applicants:
Mads Nielsen, Dragør, DK;
Marleen DE Bruijne, Rotterdam, NL;
Lauge Sørensen, Frederiksberg, DK;
Inventors:
Assignee:
The University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides methods for automated classification of a medical diagnostic image of a lung according to its deduced probability of relating to a lung of a patient who is suffering from a diffuse parenchymal lung disease such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, or severe asthma, or to a class of patients characterized by the severity of such a condition, or to a class of patients characterized by a prognostic likelihood of developing such a condition or severity of condition.