Patent Document ID: 8208697
Application ID: 11721999
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for determining a presence of at least one medically meaningful feature in an object in an input medical image, comprising the steps of: creating a first database comprising yes-or-no evaluations by at least one expert of at least one object in a plurality of training medical images, the yes-or-no evaluations indicating whether a plurality of medically meaningful features are present in the at least one object; analyzing by a data processor the at least one object in the training medical images to identify features therein; creating a second database comprising the identified features; inputting the first and second databases into a plurality of classifiers, each of the plurality of classifiers specific to identifying a presence of a different one of the plurality of medically meaningful features; for each of the plurality of classifiers, training by the data processor the each of the plurality of classifiers to map at least one of the features to a corresponding medically meaningful feature by correlating the identified features and the yes-or-no evaluations; and analyzing a medical image in the data processor and the trained plurality of classifiers to output at least one indication of a presence of the plurality of medically meaningful features of an object in the medical image.