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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); A61B 6/502 (2013.01); A61B 8/0825 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); G06K 9/6217 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for lesion detection are provided. The method of lesion detection involves detecting lesion candidates from a medical image, detecting anatomical objects from the medical image, verifying each of the lesion candidate based on anatomical context information comprising information regarding a location relationship between the lesion candidates and the anatomical objects, and removing one or more false positive lesion candidate from the detected lesion candidates based on a verification result.