Patent Document ID: 20140270438
Application ID: 14208315
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for localizing candidate foci in neuroimaging, comprising the steps of: providing acquiring two images to a processor, said images comprising a baseline image and an intervention image, each exhibiting image intensities; in said processor, aligning the two images; in said processor, normalizing (the intensities of the aligned images; in said processor, computing a difference image by subtracting the baseline image from the intervention image; in said processor, normalizing the difference image; in said processor, selecting regions of interest; in said processor, propagating the regions of interest to the intervention image; in said processor, eliminating regions of interest that do not correspond to regions having a local maximum in the intervention image; and in said processor, maintaining, as candidate foci, foci regions of interest that correspond to regions having a local maximum in the intervention image, and making the candidate foci available in electronic form at an output of the processor.