Patents
US 12762822 B2: Systems and methods for electronically removing lesions from three-dimensional medical images
- Granted
- 2026-10-13
- Filed
- 2023-01-30 application 18161160
- Type
- Utility · 18 claims
- Elsewhere
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Abstract
A method for electronically removing a lesion from a three-dimensional (3D) medical image includes segmenting each two-dimensional (2D) slice of a sequence of 2D slices of the 3D medical image to identify the lesion within any one or more of the 2D slices. The method includes deleting the lesion from each 2D slice in which the lesion was identified to create a sequence of lesion-deleted slices. The method includes constructing, based on the sequence of lesion-deleted slices, a lesion-deleted intensity-based projection image, such as a lesion-deleted maximum-intensity projection image. The method includes processing the lesion-deleted intensity-based projection image to obtain a background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) score. The method excludes high-intensity voxels that indicate the presence of a lesion, and thus are not indicative of BPE.
Source: PTBLXML, file of 2026-10-13 (ipgb20261013.xml).
Assignees
| Assignee | Type | Place | Also on furp.org | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Chicago 523 patents | US company or organization | Chicago, IL | University of Chicago College or university FUZZY medium confidence: same name (governing-board words and legal endings aside) and state UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Nonprofit FUZZY medium confidence: same name (governing-board words and legal endings aside) and state | PTBLXML, file of 2026-10-13 |
Inventors
| Inventor | Place | Patents | Person page | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryellen Giger | Elmhurst, IL | PTBLXML, file of 2026-10-13 | ||
| Lindsay Douglas | Lee's Summit, MO | PTBLXML, file of 2026-10-13 | ||
| Deepa Sheth | Chicago, IL | 2 | PTBLXML, file of 2026-10-13 |
CPC categories
| Subclass | Category | First group | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| G06V | Image or video recognition or understanding | G06V10/26 | PTBLXML, file of 2026-10-13 |
Cooperative Patent Classification, as currently assigned (one row per subclass).
Assignments and security interests
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