US 12,112,853 B2 · Method for assisting with prognosis

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for assisting with lymphoma prognosis. The prognosis of therapeutic response of patients with lymphoma is difficult. Based on a study of advanced stage DLBCL patients, the inventors showed that medical imaging such as 18F-FDG-PET/CT can provide a prognostic radiomic signature combining metrics reflecting tumor dissemination and tumor burden. In another aspect, the invention relates to a computer software comprising instructions to implement at least a part of a method according to the invention. In yet another aspect, the invention relates to a computer-readable non-transient recording medium on which a software is registered to implement a method according to the invention.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A computer implemented method for assisting with lymphoma prognosis comprising:

providing imaging data of a patient presenting a lymphoma,
segmenting the imaging data so as to identify lesions, wherein the segmentation further comprises erasing regions with a naturally high concentration of a tracing agent,
determining a distance between the two lesions which are furthest apart,
determining the metabolic tumor volume, and
providing a prognosis indicator based on the distance between the two lesions which are furthest apart and on the metabolic tumor volume.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/611,997Filed 29 May 2020

Priority

EP 1930569731 May 2019

Published

US 2023/0215572 A16 Jul 2023

Granted

8 Oct 2024

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

G16H 30/40
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical images: for processing medical images, e.g. editing
G16H 50/30
ICT specially adapted for medical diagnosis, medical simulation or medical data mining; ICT specially adapted for detecting, monitoring or…: for…
G06T 7/0014
Biomedical image inspection: using an image reference approach
G16H 20/10
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…

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