Patent ID: 11957497
Assignee: HOLOGIC, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored theron one or more sequences of instructions for causing one or more processors to perform:
processing image data of a patient's breast tissue to generate a set of image slices that collectively depict a patient's breast tissue;
processing each image slice of the set of image slices to detect a first level feature of a high dimensional object present in the patient's breast tissue using an associated first-level feature module;
generating, for each image slice, a first-level feature map depicting zero or more regions having the first-level feature;
processing each image slice of the set of image slices to detect a second level feature of the high dimensional object present in the patient's breast tissue using an associated second-level feature module, wherein the first-level feature is a low-level feature and the second-level feature is a high-level feature;
generating, for each image slice, a second-level feature map depicting zero or more regions having the second-level feature; and
combining, for each image slice, the first-level feature map and the second-level feature map into an object map that indicates a probability region of the high-dimensional object in each image slice.