Patent №
US 8,265,367
Granted
2012-09-11
Filed 2008
Owner
SIEMENS COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS LTD.
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Lab
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AI components
1
vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12132381
A method of detecting blood vessel shadows in an anterior posterior x-ray radiograph comprising the steps of: generating candidate sub areas of the radiograph showing changes in contrast above a threshold level; supressing rib shadow edges; eliminating lung tissue shadow edges, and categorizing and eliminating nodule shadows.
AI classification
Vision1.00
Planning0.11
Machine learning0.07
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Ownership
SIEMENS COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS LTD.
assignment · 211810968
SIEMENS INFORMATION SYSTEMS LTD.
assignment · 212150071
Assignors
STOECKEL, JONATHAN
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