Patent ID: 11937973
Assignee: MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 8:
9. A system for automatically diagnosing thyroid nodules, the system comprising:
at least one hardware processor that is programmed to:
receive a B-mode ultrasound image of a subject's thyroid;
receive information indicating which portions of the B-mode ultrasound correspond to a nodule;
provide at least a portion of the B-mode ultrasound image corresponding to the nodule to a trained classification model, wherein the trained classification model was trained to automatically classify thyroid nodules based on training data comprising a plurality of B-mode ultrasound images and at least one of a plurality of Doppler ultrasound images or a plurality of shear wave elastography ultrasound images each labeled as including a benign nodule or a malignant nodule; and
receive, from the trained classification model, an output indicative of a likelihood that the nodule is malignant.