Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-18
2008-03-18
Harold, Jefferey (Department: 4115)
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
C382S134000, C600S431000, C128S922000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07346202
ABSTRACT:
A CAD system pre-analyzes a medical image to automatically determine whether contrast agent was introduced into the patient before forming that image. In one embodiment, contrast agent detection is performed by comparing the voxel values in known blood-containing areas to voxel values of known water-containing areas, and if there is a substantial difference above a preferred threshold, then it is determined that this patient was indeed injected with the contrast agent. Upon finding that the patient was indeed injected with contrast agent, the CAD algorithm then automatically performs both a detection algorithm that uses the contrast agent and one that does not and notifies the clinician that both sets of results are available to look at. However, if it is determined that the patient was not injected with contrast agent, the CAD algorithm does not perform the algorithm that uses the contrast agent does not give the user the option to view any results from such algorithm. The invention may be practiced with a variety of imaging technologies some of which may not require an explicit comparison of the voxel values from the blood-containing and water-containing areas.
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Harold Jefferey
Morgan & Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Park Soo Jin
R2 Technology, Inc.
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