Patent ID: 8494235

Claim:
A method for detecting lymph nodes in a medical image, comprising: receiving an image data; detecting one or more highly-sensitive regions of interest from the image data where lymph nodes are commonly found; identifying one or more lymph node candidates within the detected one or more highly-sensitive regions of interest using a set of predefined parameters that is particular to the detected region of interest where each lymph node candidate is located; obtaining a quantitative data for each of the one or more identified lymph node candidates, the quantitative data being selected from the group including: shape, size, and sphericity; displaying the one or more identified lymph node candidates along with the image data and the quantitative data; receiving user-provided adjustments to the set of predefined parameters that are particular to the detected one or more highly-sensitive regions of interest; and re-identifying the one or more lymph node candidates based on the adjusted parameters.