Patent Document ID: 5437279
Application ID: 07908239
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-executed method of analyzing a signal encoding machine-generated patient image data to identify zero or more lymph nodes having an elevated risk of containing cancer cells in a patient having a primary tumor, said method comprising: (a) receiving a first signal encoding the location of said primary tumor; (b) generating a second signal encoding the location of zero or more lymph nodes in said patient which appear to be abnormal or enlarged; (c) generating, as a function of said first signal and said second signal, a third signal encoding (i) an index of metastasis likelihood for a cluster of lymph nodes for said patient and (ii) a location for said cluster of lymph nodes for said patient; and (d) displaying a representative of said third signal; (e) wherein the location of said zero or more lymph nodes in said patient which appear to be abnormal or enlarged, encoded in said second signal, is derived from a signal encoding computerized tomography image data of said patient.