Abstract: The invention relates to a detection system for automatic detection of bone cancer metastases from a set of isotope bone scan images of a patients skeleton, the system comprising a shape identifier unit, a hotspot detection unit, a hotspot feature extraction unit, a first artificial neural network unit, a patient feature extraction unit, and a second artificial neural network unit.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 23, 2008
Publication date:
April 18, 2013
Applicant:
EXINI DIAGNOSTICS AB
Inventors:
Iman Hamadeh, Pierre Nordblom, Karl Sjöstrand
Abstract: Methods for fully automatic quantification and interpretation of three dimensional images of the brain or other organs. A system for Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) of diseases affecting cerebral cortex from SPECT images of the brain, where said images may represent cerebral blood flow (CBF). The methods include image processing, statistical shape models, a virtual brain atlas, reference databases and machine learning.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 26, 2007
Publication date:
March 18, 2010
Applicant:
EXINI DIAGNOSTICS AB
Inventors:
David JAKOBSSON, Jens RICHTER, Andreas JARUND