METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING A RISK METRIC FOR SOFT PLAQUE IN VESSELS

Patent №

US 7,957,574

Granted

2011-06-07

Filed 2006

Owner

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11603490

A method for generating a score for soft plaque in coronary arteries includes using the computer to estimate the soft plaque content within at least one object depicted in a medical image, using the computer to determine a plaque score dependent upon the estimated soft plaque content of the at least one object, and using the computer to report the plaque score.

VisionG06T 7/0012G06T 7/62G06T 2207/10116G06T 2207/30048G06T 2207/30101

AI classification

Vision0.92
Evolutionary computation0.18
Natural language0.08
Machine learning0.05
Knowledge representation0.03
Planning0.02
AI hardware0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

assignment · 186150611

Assignors

SIROHEY, SAAD AHMED, AVINASH, GOPAL B., SKINNER, JOHN V., DUTTA, SANDEEP, LE NEZET, PATRICIA, HAAS, DEANN MARIE

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