Patent Document ID: 7660448
Application ID: 10993187
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for providing characterization information for a region within medical imagery comprising imagery of at least a portion of a human body, analyzed by a suitably programmed computer-aided detection system comprising at least one input device, at least one processor and at least one output device, comprising the steps: by means of a processor, processing at least a portion of the medical imagery with the computer-aided detection system to detect candidate regions; by means of a processor, computing discrimination and characterization features for each candidate region; by means of a processor, separating said candidate regions in a discrimination step into candidate regions accepted for display and candidate regions not to display; by means of an output device, displaying computer-aided detection system detection indicators at locations corresponding to the accepted candidate regions overlaid on at least a portion of the medical imagery; by means of an input device, accepting user input to identify a location on the displayed medical imagery; by means of a processor, computing a characterization score for each characterization feature for candidate detections within a predetermined distance of the identified location; and by means of an output device, displaying in association with at least a portion of the medical imagery a predetermined definition of each characterization feature and the computed characterization score associated with said candidate detections.