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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2013
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Rakesh Mullick, Bangalore, IN;
Vivek Prabhakar Vaidya, Bangalore, IN;
Fei Zhao, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Xiaoxing Li, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Vidya Kamath, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Kunlin Cao, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Soma Biswas, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for detecting lesions in ultrasound images. The method includes acquiring an ultrasound image, generating a Fisher-tippett (FT) distribution-based edge feature map from the acquired ultrasound image, generating gradient concentration (GC) scores for pixels of the acquired ultrasound image using the FT distribution-based edge feature map, and identifying a candidate lesion region within the acquired ultrasound image based on the GC scores.