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- Patent Title: System and method for navigating a tomosynthesis stack using synthesized image data
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Application No.: US15794635Application Date: 2017-10-26
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Publication No.: US10410417B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Jin-Long Chen , Haili Chui , Nikolaos Gkanatsios , Kevin Kreeger , Julian Marshall , David Mislan , Mark A. Prazer , Xiangwei Zhang
- Applicant: HOLOGIC, INC.
- Applicant Address: US MA Marlborough
- Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Marlborough
- Agency: Vista IP Law Group, LLP
- Main IPC: G06T19/00
- IPC: G06T19/00 ; A61B6/00 ; G06F3/0484 ; A61B6/02 ; G06F3/0481 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
A system and method for displaying and navigating breast tissue is configured for or includes obtaining a plurality of 2D and/or 3D images of a patient's breast; generating a synthesized 2D image of the breast from the obtained images; displaying the synthesized 2D image; receiving a user command, or otherwise detecting through a user interface, a user selection or other indication of an object or region in the synthesized 2D image; and displaying at least a portion of one or more images from the plurality, including a source image and/or most similar representation of the user selected or indicated object or region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180047211A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING A TOMOSYNTHESIS STACK USING SYNTHESIZED IMAGE DATA Public/Granted day:2018-02-15
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