METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING BREAST CANCER LESIONS BASED ON THEIR VISUAL CONTENT AND SIMILAR HISTORICAL CASES

The present invention describes a method for classifying breast cancer lesions by the analysis of digital or digitized mammographies, with the purpose of obtaining the information of the visual content of the lesions and the recovery of similar historical cases with previously diagnosed pathologies,...

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Main Authors HUGO TERASHIMA MARIN, EDEN ALEJANDRO ALANIS REYES, SANTIAGO ENRIQUE CONANT PABLOS
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Spanish
Published 23.06.2014
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Summary:The present invention describes a method for classifying breast cancer lesions by the analysis of digital or digitized mammographies, with the purpose of obtaining the information of the visual content of the lesions and the recovery of similar historical cases with previously diagnosed pathologies, which are stored in a database, i.e., this method uses similar cases for classifying lesions into benign and malignant. Said results are presented to the final user, as a graphic justification of the response of the method for finally obtaining a feedback and taking it into consideration for a continuous improvement of the inner processes of the method, the case being stored in a database for future references. La presente invención describe un método para clasificar las lesiones relacionadas al cáncer mamario, mediante el análisis de mamografías digitales o digitalizadas, teniendo como parte fundamental la obtención de información del contenido visual de las lesiones y la recuperación de casos históricos similares con patologías previamente diagnosticadas. Contenidos en una base de datos, es decir, este método, tomando en cuenta los casos similares puede clasificar lesiones en benignas o malignas. Además dichos resultados son presentados al usuario final, como justificación gráfica de la respuesta del método para finalmente recoger su retroalimentación y tomarla en cuenta para mejora continua de los procesos internos del método, almacenando el caso de consulta en la base de datos, para su uso futuro.
Bibliography:Application Number: MX20120014895