METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTION OF CARIES

Patent №

US 8,520,922

Granted

2013-08-27

Filed 2011

Owner

CARESTREAM HEALTH, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13144308

A method for forming an enhanced image (60) of a tooth (20) making use of the tooth (20) fluorescence and/or reflectance effects, employs a morphological image processing technique, and reduces susceptibility to overall intensity variations in the image (60).

VisionA61B 5/0088G06T 5/50G06T 7/0012G06T 2207/10004G06T 2207/10064G06T 2207/20036G06T 2207/30036

AI classification

Vision1.00
Evolutionary computation0.05
Machine learning0.01
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

CARESTREAM HEALTH, INC.

assignment · 265820001

Assignors

WANG, WEI, PAN, LIANGLIANG, SHI, LIXING, WONG, VICTOR C.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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