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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2014
Agfa Healthcare, Mississauga, CA;
Mehmet Bediz, Waterloo, CA;
Ronald Dale Hitzelberger, Greenville, SC (US);
AGFA Healthcare, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method and system of aligning plurality of physically scaled mammography images within at least one viewport comprising: categorizing each mammography image to a corresponding mammography view; determining the image dimensions of each image based on the pixel spacing; choosing a first mammography image for each mammographic view based on the image dimensions; centering the first mammography image of each mammographic view within the at least one viewport; generating a virtual line across the at least one viewport along a boundary of the first mammography image; and aligning subsequent mammography images of the same mammographic view such that a boundary of the mammography image is aligned to the virtual line.