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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Rami Ben-Ari, Kiryat-Ono, IL;
Aviad Zlotnick, Mitzpeh Netofa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/502 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30068 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30096 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide automated systems and methods for segmentation of fibro-glandular (FG) tissue in digital mammography. A classifier is trained for breast density without the prior knowledge for FG tissue. The classifier is then used for feature selection, where the selected features are fed into a fuzzy logic module, and an adaptive threshold is obtained. Post-processing is performed on the image in order to reduce regions which may have been misclassified during the FG segmentation.