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Determining malignancy of pulmonary nodules using deep learning

US11244453B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

Sasa Grbic · Plainsboro, US
Dorin Comaniciu · Princeton Junction, US
Bogdan Georgescu · Plainsboro, US
Siqi LIU · Dongguan, CN
Razvan Ioan Ionasec · Lawrenceville, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 2, 2018
Grant date	Feb 8, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 5, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V2201/032
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems and method are described for determining a malignancy of a nodule. A medical image of a nodule of a patient is received. A patch surrounding the nodule is identified in the medical image. A malignancy of the nodule in the patch is predicted using a trained deep image-to-image network.

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