Method and system for automatic processing and evaluation of images, particularly diagnostic images

Patent №

US 8,345,940

Granted

2013-01-01

Filed 2008

Owner

BRACCO IMAGING S.P.A.

Lab

AI components

3

ml · vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12089911

Method for automatic processing and evaluation of images, particularly diagnostic images, comprising an image processing tool in the form of a software program which is executable by the computer hardware and which image processing tool processes image data of a digital input image generating a modified digital output image whose image data are outputted in a graphical and/or alphanumerical format highlighting certain predetermined features or qualities of the corresponding regions of an imaged body or object, characterized in that the image processing tool comprises a first image detecting module which is an image processing module based on image processing non expert algorithms and which furnishes at its output a modified image file which modified image data are further processed by a classification or evaluation module which is a second image processing module comprising an image processing tool consisting in an expert image processing algorithm such as a classification or prediction algorithm the output of which is a further modified image file in which the pixels or voxels are highlighted corresponding to imaged object having a predetermined feature or quality.

Machine learningVisionAI hardwareG06T 7/0012G06T 7/33G06T 7/48G16H 30/40G06T 2207/10016G06T 2207/10088G06T 2207/20036G06T 2207/20084+2 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
Machine learning0.94
AI hardware0.89
Planning0.50
Evolutionary computation0.01
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

BRACCO IMAGING S.P.A.

assignment · 211230653

Assignors

MATTIUZZI, MARCO, VOMWEG, TONI WERNER

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