Marking system for computer-aided detection of breast abnormalities
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1. A method for marking an anomaly in an image comprising pixels, the method comprising:
- generating an initial boundary description representing a size, a shape and a location of the anomaly in the image;
dilating the initial boundary description, without dilating or eroding the anomaly in the image, to generate a dilated boundary description representing the shape, the location and an enlarged size of the initial boundary description, wherein the dilated boundary description marks but does not obscure and does not touch the anomaly, and wherein the dilated boundary description does not obscure an image region between the dilated boundary description and the anomaly; and
saving, on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the dilated boundary description as an overlay plane object in an output format compliant with an industry standard digital image format.
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An embodiment method for marking an anomaly in an image comprises generating an initial boundary description representing a size, a shape and a location of the anomaly in the image, dilating the initial boundary description to generate a dilated boundary description representing the shape, the location and an enlarged size of the initial boundary description, and saving, on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the dilated boundary description as an overlay plane object in an output format compliant with a industry standard digital image format.
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1. A method for marking an anomaly in an image comprising pixels, the method comprising:
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generating an initial boundary description representing a size, a shape and a location of the anomaly in the image; dilating the initial boundary description, without dilating or eroding the anomaly in the image, to generate a dilated boundary description representing the shape, the location and an enlarged size of the initial boundary description, wherein the dilated boundary description marks but does not obscure and does not touch the anomaly, and wherein the dilated boundary description does not obscure an image region between the dilated boundary description and the anomaly; and saving, on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the dilated boundary description as an overlay plane object in an output format compliant with an industry standard digital image format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for marking an anomaly in an image comprising pixels, the system comprising:
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a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions for; generating an initial boundary description representing a size, a shape and a location of the anomaly in the image; and dilating the initial boundary description, without dilating or eroding the anomaly in the image, to generate a dilated boundary description representing the shape, the location and an enlarged size of the initial boundary description, wherein the dilated boundary description marks but does not obscure and does not touch the anomaly, and wherein the dilated boundary description does not obscure an image region between the dilated boundary description and the anomaly; the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium further storing the dilated boundary description as an overlay plane object in an output format compliant with an industry standard digital image format. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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13. A computer program product for marking an anomaly an image, the computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable medium with a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program comprising; computer program code for generating an initial boundary description representing a size, a shape and a location of the anomaly in the image; computer program code for dilating the initial boundary description, without dilating or eroding the anomaly in the image, to generate a dilated boundary description representing the shape, the location and an enlarged size of the initial boundary description, wherein the dilated boundary description marks but does not obscure and does not touch the anomaly, and wherein the dilated boundary description does not obscure an image region between the dilated boundary description and the anomaly; and computer program code for saving the dilated boundary description as an overlay plane object in an output format compliant with an industry standard digital image format. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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