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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 08, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Sharon Alpert, Rehovot, IL;

Pavel Kisilev, Maalot, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 5/40 (2006.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06K 9/4671 (2013.01); G06K 9/6267 (2013.01); G06T 5/40 (2013.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30068 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30096 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for computing a patch distinctiveness score for each of multiple patches of a medical image, computing a shape distinctiveness score for each of multiple regions of the medical image, and computing a saliency map of the medical image, by combining the patch distinctiveness score and the shape distinctiveness score.


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