Microcalcification detection and classification in radiographic images
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G06T-007/00
G06K-009/62
G06T-005/00
G06T-005/10
출원번호
US-0507575
(2014-10-06)
등록번호
US-9256941
(2016-02-09)
발명자
/ 주소
Wehnes, Jeffrey C.
Monaco, James P.
Harding, David S.
Pike, James H.
Ho, Anbinh T.
Hanafy, Lawrence M.
출원인 / 주소
VUCOMP, INC.
대리인 / 주소
Slater & Matsil, LLP
인용정보
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74
초록▼
An analysis of a digitized image is provided. The digitized image is repeatedly convolved to form first convolved images, which first convolved images are convolved a second time to form second convolved images. Each first convolved image and the respective second convolved image representing a stag
An analysis of a digitized image is provided. The digitized image is repeatedly convolved to form first convolved images, which first convolved images are convolved a second time to form second convolved images. Each first convolved image and the respective second convolved image representing a stage, and each stage represents a different scale or size of anomaly. As an example, the first convolution may utilize a Gaussian convolver, and the second convolution may utilize a Laplacian convolver, but other convolvers may be used. The second convolved image from a current stage and the first convolved image from a previous stage are used with a neighborhood median determined from the second convolved image from the current stage by a peak detector to detect peaks, or possible anomalies for that particular scale.
대표청구항▼
1. A method for detecting an anomaly in an image, the method comprising: convolving, by a processor, a digital image with a smoothing filter to create a plurality of first convolved images at differing scales;convolving, by the processor, each of the plurality of first convolved images with a second
1. A method for detecting an anomaly in an image, the method comprising: convolving, by a processor, a digital image with a smoothing filter to create a plurality of first convolved images at differing scales;convolving, by the processor, each of the plurality of first convolved images with a second derivative filter, thereby creating a plurality of second convolved images, each of the plurality of first convolved images and a corresponding one of the plurality of second convolved images corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of stages;creating, by the processor, a plurality of surgery masks, each surgery mask based at least in part on one of the plurality of the second convolved images of a current stage and one of the plurality of second convolved images from a previous stage;determining, by the processor, a neighborhood median for each pixel location of the plurality of surgery masks;identifying, by the processor, one or more peaks in the digital image based at least in part upon the second convolved image from the current stage, the first convolved image from the previous stage, and the neighborhood medians for the current stage; andstoring, by the processor in a non-transitory computer-readable memory, a peak list comprising selected one or more of the one or more peaks having a corresponding contrast ratio higher than a contrast ratio threshold. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the creating the plurality of surgery masks based at least in part on one of the plurality of second convolved images from the previous stage is performed at least in part by using the neighborhood median from the previous stage. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the creating the plurality of surgery masks based at least in part on one of the plurality of second convolved images from the previous stage is performed at least in part by comparing, for each pixel of respective ones of the plurality of second convolved images, a pixel relative contrast to a threshold. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the pixel relative contrast is determined at least in part by dividing a pixel value of the respective second convolved images of the current stage by a neighborhood median of a same pixel location of a previous stage. 5. The method of claim 1, further comprising excluding a peak detected at a smaller scale from a larger scale. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital image is a scaled image. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein a standard deviation doubles from one scale to a next scale. 8. A system for identifying anomalies in a digitized image, the system comprising: a processor; anda non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions for: convolving a digitized image with a smoothing filter, creating a first convolved image;convolving the first convolved image with a second derivative filter, creating a second convolved image;determining a neighborhood median for each pixel in the second convolved image;identifying pixels in the digitized image having peak values, in accordance with the digitized image, the second convolved image, and the neighborhood median for each pixel in the second convolved image; andstoring a peak list comprising selected one or more of the identified pixels having a corresponding contrast ratio higher than a contrast ratio threshold. 9. The system of claim 8, wherein the digitized image is a prior convolved image from a previous stage. 10. The system of claim 8, wherein the programming further includes instructions for removing pixels having a pixel relative contrast greater than a relative contrast threshold from the second convolved image, and wherein the instructions to determine the neighborhood median for each pixel include further instructions for using at least in part the second convolved image after execution of the instructions to remove the pixels. 11. The system of claim 10, wherein the pixel relative contrast is determined at least in part by dividing a pixel value of the respective second convolved image of a current stage by a neighborhood median of a same pixel location based at least in part upon a previous stage second convolved image. 12. The system of claim 10, wherein the relative contrast threshold is a multiple of a global median absolute deviation. 13. The system of claim 8, wherein the programming further includes instructions for comparing each corresponding contrast ratio of each identified pixel with the contrast ratio threshold. 14. The system of claim 8, wherein the smoothing filter comprises a Gaussian kernel, and wherein the second derivative filter comprises a Laplacian function. 15. A computer program product for identifying anomalies, the computer program product having a non-transitory computer-readable medium with a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program comprising: computer program code for convolving a digitized image with a smoothing filter, thereby creating a plurality of first convolved images, each of the convolved images corresponding to a different scale;computer program code for convolving each of the plurality of first convolved images with a second derivative filter, creating a plurality of second convolved images;computer program code for determining a neighborhood median for each pixel of each of the plurality of second convolved images;computer program code for identifying peak regions based at least in part upon one of the plurality of first convolved images and one of the second convolved images, the one of the second convolved images corresponding to the one of the plurality of first convolved images after being convolved by the convolving a digitized image and the convolving each of the plurality of first convolved images; andcomputer program code for storing a peak list comprising selected one or more of the peak regions having a corresponding contrast ratio higher than a contrast ratio threshold. 16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the plurality of first convolved images represent Gaussian-blurred images. 17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the plurality of second convolved images represent Laplacian curvature images. 18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the computer program code for determining the neighborhood median includes computer program code for excluding peak regions identified in a previous scale. 19. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising computer program code for excluding pixels from the plurality of second convolved images used for determining the neighborhood median. 20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the computer program code for excluding pixels includes computer program code for comparing a pixel relative contrast to the neighborhood median.
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