Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1993-01-11
1994-11-15
Envall, Jr., Roy N.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
36441315, 378 37, G06F 1500, A61B 604
Patent
active
053654293
ABSTRACT:
A method of aiding detection of breast cancer by computer analysis of a mammogram image includes computing filtered second spatial derivative of intensity values at the pixels of the image, in the form of a Laplacian. The filtering is iterative adaptive smoothing of the first spatial derivative, which smoothing is applied to achieve relatively great smoothing effect where there is relatively little local variation in derivative value and a relatively small or no smoothing effect where there is relatively great local variation in derivative value. This has the effect of preserving locations of zero crossings in the Laplacian which correspond to edges or boundaries in the image. Regions of negative Laplacian value are labelled and connected. These labelled regions are locally bright spots in the image. From the preserved boundary locations of these locally bright spots, a plurality of feature measures are computed, indicative of their respective brightnesses, shapes and edge contrasts. Those locally bright spots having a weighted combination of logarithms of these feature measures exceeding a predetermined value are identified as microcalcifications of a type associated with cancer, and it is detected where such identified microcalcifications are grouped in clusters.
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Envall Jr. Roy N.
North American Philips Corporation
Slobod Jack D.
Tran Khai
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