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Method and system for lesion detection in ultrasound images

US10238368B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

General Electric Company · US

Inventors

Rakesh Mullick · Kanchinakote, IN
Pavan Annangi · Kanchinakote, IN
Xiaoxing Li · San Jose, US
Vidya Pundalik Kamath · Clifton Park, US
Fei Zhao · Suzhou, CN
Vivek Prabhakar Vaidya · Bengaluru, IN
Soma Biswas · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 21, 2013
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 19, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2207/30096
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A method is provided for detecting lesions in ultrasound images. The method includes acquiring ultrasound information, determining discriminative descriptors that describe the texture of a candidate lesion region, and classifying each of the discriminative descriptors as one of a top boundary pixel, a lesion interior pixel, a lower boundary pixel, or a normal tissue pixel. The method also includes determining a pattern of transitions between the classified discriminative descriptors, and classifying the candidate lesion region as a lesion or normal tissue based on the pattern of transitions between the classified discriminative descriptors.

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