Patent Document ID: 9679375
Application ID: 14836408
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: constructing a variation image from an ovarian follicle B-mode ultrasound image, wherein the variation image is indicative of local variations in the ovarian follicle B-mode ultrasound image, and wherein the variation image includes one of a variance image and an entropy image; constructing a binary image from the variation image and the ovarian follicle B-mode image; identifying connected components in the binary image, wherein each connected component corresponds to a different ovarian follicle candidate; constructing a coarse follicle mask from the binary image where each identified connected component represents a mask for a corresponding different ovarian follicle candidate in the binary image; optimizing contours of the follicles in the coarse follicle mask; and segmenting one or more ovarian follicles from the ovarian follicle B-mode ultrasound image with the optimized follicle mask.