Patent ID: 11857358
Assignee: HOLOGIC, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented for processing images of breast tissue, the computer-implemented method comprising:
feeding image data of a plurality of images of a breast as an input into an image processor of an image generation and display system;
identifying, by the image processor, image portions depicting breast tissue and image portions depicting a high density element generated by imaging the high density object together with breast tissue;
executing, by the image processor, a first image processing method comprising: enhancing identified image portions depicting breast tissue, suppressing identified image portions depicting the high density element, and generating, a first two-dimensional (2D) synthesized image based at least in part upon enhanced breast tissue image portions and suppressed high density element image portions;
executing, by the image processor, a second image processing method comprising: enhancing identified image portions depicting the high density element, and generating a second 2D synthesized image based at least in part upon enhanced high density element portions;
combining, by the image processor, the first 2D synthesized image generated by the first image processing method and the second 2D synthesized image generated by the second image processing method to generate a 2D composite synthesized image; and
presenting the 2D composite synthesized image through a display of the image generation and display system.