Patent ID: 9147245
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: A61B,G06F,G06K,G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for classifying breast density from mammographic imagery using content-based image retrieval comprising: (a) pre-processing one or more digital mammogram images of a patient to remove noise and enhance contrast; (b) segmenting the one or more digital mammogram images to produce one or more extracted regions of interest and saving the one or more extracted regions of interest in computer memory; (c) grouping the one or more extracted regions of interest saved in memory to produce a large mammogram image; (d) decomposing, with a processor of a computer, the large mammogram image by principal component analysis (PCA) in a mammogram image database; and (e) classifying, with a processor of a computer, the large mammogram image according to breast density with Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) in the mammogram image database.