BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS WITH DISPLAY OF HIGHLIGHTED SUSPECTED CALCIFICATIONS

Systems and methods that facilitate the presentation and assessment of selected features in projection and/or reconstructed breast images, such as calcifications that meet selected criteria of size, shape, presence in selected slice images, distribution of pixels that could be indicative of calcific...

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Main Authors RUTH, CHRIS, STEIN, JAY, SMITH, ANDREW, NIKLASON, LOREN
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 30.06.2010
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
DIAGNOSIS
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IDENTIFICATION
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
SURGERY
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Summary:Systems and methods that facilitate the presentation and assessment of selected features in projection and/or reconstructed breast images, such as calcifications that meet selected criteria of size, shape, presence in selected slice images, distribution of pixels that could be indicative of calcification relative to other pixels or of other image features of clinical interest.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20080798945