Inferring body position in a scan

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10169647
APP PUB NO 20180032801A1
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15220932

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A method and system for automatically inferring a subject's body position in a two-dimensional image produced by a medical-imaging system are disclosed. The image is labeled with a body position selected from a semantically meaningful set of candidate positions sequenced in order of their relative locations in a subject's body. A processor performs procedures that each identify a class of image features related to pixel intensity, such as a histogram of gradients, local binary patterns, or Haar-like features. A second set of procedures employs applications of a pretrained convolutional neural network that has learned to recognize features of a specific class of medical images. The results of both types of procedures are then mapped by a pretrained support-vector machine onto candidate image labels, which are mathematically combined into a single, semantically meaningful, label most likely to identify a body position of the subject shown by the image.

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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONNEW ORCHARD ROAD ARMONK NY 10504

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Gur, Yaniv San Jose, US 36 803
Moradi, Mehdi San Jose, US 39 387
Syeda-Mahmood, Tanveer F Cupertino, US 83 1768
Wang, Hongzhi San Jose, US 53 233

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