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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2008
Applicants:
Iman Hamadeh, Göteborg, SE;
Pierre Nordblom, Göteborg, SE;
Karl Sjöstrand, Lomma, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Exini Diagnostics AB, , SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01); G06N 3/02 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/48 (2013.01); A61B 6/505 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10128 (2013.01); G06K 9/46 (2013.01); G06T 7/0089 (2013.01); A61B 5/7267 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30096 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20128 (2013.01); G06K 2209/055 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30008 (2013.01); A61B 5/7264 (2013.01); A61B 6/12 (2013.01); G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20124 (2013.01); A61B 5/1079 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06N 3/02 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20148 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to a detection system for automatic detection of bone cancer metastases from a set of isotope bone scan images of a patients skeleton, the system comprising a shape identifier unit, a hotspot detection unit, a hotspot feature extraction unit, a first artificial neural network unit, a patient feature extraction unit, and a second artificial neural network unit.