Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Detecting nuclear – electromagnetic – or ultrasonic radiation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-13
2007-11-13
Mercader, Eleni Mantis (Department: 3737)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Detecting nuclear, electromagnetic, or ultrasonic radiation
C600S407000, C600S476000, C382S128000, C382S131000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10302135
ABSTRACT:
For the automatic detection and characterization of nodules in a tomographic image of an anatomical zone of a patient, the image is segmented for identifying therein a region of interest, and the segmented image is processed for identifying the nodule.During the processing step, an ellipsoid inscribed in the region of interest is modeled for deciding whether the image elements inscribed in this ellipsoid correspond to a nodule, and, for each zone of the region of interest extending beyond the ellipsoid, the image elements are identified which do not belong to the module according to mathematical morphologic criteria.
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Allain Pascal Raymond
Ferrant Matthieu
Hourdin Guy-Michel
Knoplioch Jerome Francois
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
General Electric Company
Mantis Mercader Eleni
Roy Baisakhi
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