Patent Document ID: 20100142793
Application ID: 12704232
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for computer aided detection of medical abnormalities in x-ray medical images comprising the steps of: processing a digital or digitized x-ray medical image of an object to remove distinguishing effects of at least one operating parameter or physical characteristic of an x-ray device used to form said x-ray medical image, thereby forming a processed x-ray medical image; processing the processed x-ray medical image using a predetermined value selected from at least one different operating parameter or different physical characteristic, the different operating parameter or different physical characteristic differing from an associated operating parameter or physical characteristic removed from the digital or digitized x-ray medical image to thereby transform the digital or digitized x-ray medical image into a standard-form version of said x-ray medical image; and processing said standard form version of said x-ray medical image with a computer aided detection algorithm that has been optimized with a plurality of x-ray medical images similarly processed into standard-form versions thereof using the same predetermined value; and storing results of the processing of said standard form version of said x-ray medical image with the optimized computer aided detection algorithm.