Patent ID: 7738683

Claim:
A system for the detection of abnormalities in a medical image of a subject, comprising: an examination bundle including at least one medical image of the subject from a first modality and at least one medical image of the subject from at least a second modality; a mapping engine for defining a correspondence relationship between the at least one medical image from the first modality and the at least one medical image from the at least second modality; a training/learning engine for determining the characteristics of abnormalities using features extracted within the at least one medical image from the first modality and the at least one medical image from the at least second modality; a classification engine for detecting abnormalities within at least one of the medical images comprising the examination bundle; and a combining module combining training/learning processes for determining the characteristics of abnormalities using features extracted from the first and second modalities and the detected abnormalities from the first and second modalities using the classification engine for diagnosis and identifying abnormalities detected in both of the first and second modalities.