Patent ID: 9256799
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: A61B,G06K,G06T,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method for marking an anomaly in an image comprising pixels, the method comprising: generating an initial boundary description representing a size, a shape and a location of the anomaly in the image; dilating the initial boundary description, without dilating or eroding the anomaly in the image, to generate a dilated boundary description representing the shape, the location and an enlarged size of the initial boundary description, wherein the dilated boundary description marks but does not obscure and does not touch the anomaly, and wherein the dilated boundary description does not obscure an image region between the dilated boundary description and the anomaly; and saving, on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the dilated boundary description as an overlay plane object in an output format compliant with an industry standard digital image format.