Identifying subject matter of a digital image
US11823046B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 23, 2020 |
| Grant date | Nov 21, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 3, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V2201/03
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and system for automatically inferring a subject's body position in a two-dimensional image produced by a medical-imaging system are disclosed. The image is labeled with a body position selected from a semantically meaningful set of candidate positions sequenced in order of their relative locations in a subject's body. A processor performs procedures that each identify a class of image features related to pixel intensity, such as a histogram of gradients, local binary patterns, or Haar-like features. A second set of procedures employs applications of a pretrained convolutional neural network that has learned to recognize features of a specific class of medical images. The results of both types of procedures are then mapped by a pretrained support-vector machine onto candidate image labels, which are mathematically combined into a single, semantically meaningful, label most likely to identify a body position of the subject shown by the image.
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