Patent ID: 6704440
Filing Date: 2004-03-09
Classification: G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for processing medical diagnostic images containing a clinical region and a non-clinical region, comprising:obtaining a medical diagnostic image containing a clinical region and a non-clinical region, said clinical region comprising diagnostic image data including pixel values representative of patient data, said non-clinical region comprising non-diagnostic image data including pixel values representative of non-patient data; identifying an edge of said image proximate the clinical region; adding a border of pixels along a portion of the clinical region based on the size of a filter kernel; assigning values to the border pixels associated with the clinical region; performing multi-resolution image filtering technique upon said image at a given pyramid level of said image filtering technique by overlaying said filter kernel over said image and continuously shifting said filter kernel from pixel to pixel within the clinical region; and repeating said adding, assigning, and filtering steps as necessary for each of said given pyramid levels of said image filtering technique.