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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2010
Ralph Highnam, Wellington, NZ;
John Michael Brady, Headington, GB;
Nico Karssemeijer, Ubbergen, NL;
Martin Yaffe, Toronto, CA;
Ralph Highnam, Wellington, NZ;
John Michael Brady, Headington, GB;
Nico Karssemeijer, Ubbergen, NL;
Martin Yaffe, Toronto, CA;
Other;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of analyzing tissue from an image comprising providing an electronic image of tissue (), determining a reference value from the image (), establishing an hrepresentation () of the image, and using the hrepresentation in analysis of the tissue to quantify the breast and compute a calibration error. Also disclosed is a system which runs an inner breast edge detection algorithm () on the electronic image to detect the inner breast edge on the image (), and refined the inner breast edge location () if a calibration error is not acceptable (). Also disclosed is automatic estimation of breast composition and temporal analysis of images.