Patent ID: 7260249
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for processing medical images of human tissue under study comprising: a first memory storing a plurality of sets of images of locations representative of tissue with a patient under study; a first set of said plurality of the sets of images representing tissue prior to injection of a contrast agent; a second set of said plurality of the sets of images representing tissue at a selected time after injection of a contrast agent; a second memory storing a plurality of rules to be applied to said images; a computer-aided detection processor configured to apply the set of rules to the first and second sets of images to thereby detect tissues of interest, the processor further configured to classify the tissues of interest into a first class of lesions if those tissues of interest have a first characteristic defined by the set of rules and to classify the tissues of interest into a second class of lesions if those tissues of interest have a second characteristic defined by the set of rules; and a visual display having an image from said plurality of sets of images displayed thereon, the image having a first indicia thereon of the detected tissues of interest classified into the first class of lesions and having a second indicia thereon of the detected tissues of interest classified into the second class of lesions.