Patent Document ID: 9918686
Application ID: 14941954
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for segmentation of fibro-glandular (FG) tissue, the method comprising: performing, by one or more processors, a training process, the training process comprising: estimating, by one or more processors, a preliminary FG region in a breast domain; extracting, by one or more processors, a set of global features from the breast domain and a set of specific features related to the preliminary FG region and non-FG regions; identifying, by one or more processors, a set of features for breast density discrimination; configuring, by one or more processors, a fuzzy logic module, wherein the fuzzy logic module is based, in part, on a set of manual settings; computing, by one or more processors, the identified set of features for breast density discrimination, set in the training process; inputting, by one or more processors, the computed set of features for breast density discrimination into the configured fuzzy logic module, to obtain a threshold; applying, by one or more processors, the obtained threshold to derive an FG mask, and performing, by one or more processors, post-processing on the derived FG mask.