Computer aided diagnosis using derived images

US8160335B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Riverain Medical Group, LLC · US

Inventors

• Jyh-Shyan Lin · North Potomac, US
• Ruiping Li · Shanghai, CN
• Fleming Lure · Potomac, US
• Edward A. Martello · Bethesda, US
• Tong Wei · Evanston, US
• Rujirutana Sriikanchana · Columbia, US
• Hui Zhao · Silver Spring, US
• Xin-Wei Xu · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 17, 2012
• Expiry date: Mar 8, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/30064
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Computer-aided diagnosis techniques may be combined with techniques to obtain derived images from radiographic images to provide enhanced computer-aided diagnosis of, for example, lung nodules.