COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION AND DISPLAY OF COLONIC RESIDUE IN MEDICAL IMAGERY OF THE COLON

Methods and systems are presented that improve a radiologist's ability to identify polyps by automatically and more accurately detecting and displaying colonic residue such as tagged or untagged stool or colonic fluid in medical images of the colorectal region. A virtual colonography imaging sy...

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Main Authors PERIASWAMY SENTHIL, UITERT ROBERT V, KUNZ JUSTIN, COLLINS MICHAEL J
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 28.01.2010
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
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Summary:Methods and systems are presented that improve a radiologist's ability to identify polyps by automatically and more accurately detecting and displaying colonic residue such as tagged or untagged stool or colonic fluid in medical images of the colorectal region. A virtual colonography imaging system obtains medical imagery of the colon. Improved computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithms identify colonic residue in the imagery by calculating feature vectors of and using statistical classification methods to classify regions of colonic residue to distinguish them from false positives.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20080179787