Method for investigating digital images for cancer based on parameters using samples in images
OwnerGeorge Madathilparambil George, Sanjeev Saxenainventors
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Abstract
A method for dividing value space of parameters into ranges using samples wherein these ranges are used for detection of cancer in a region or segment in a digital image. A method for assisting the investigation in detection of cancer in a region in a first digital image of a human body or a human body part using ranges of parameters computed using samples. A method for performing medical diagnostics for detection of cancer over a computer network.
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A method of dividing value space of a parameter into ranges wherein the said parameter is used to characterize a segment or a region of a digital image and the said ranges are used for assisting the investigation in detection of cancer in a human body part, the said method comprising:
- (a) using sample regions wherein a sample region is a region or a segment in a digital image of human body or in a digital image of a part of a human body, with a known result wherein a known result identifies a region as cancerous, or healthy, or unhealthy but not cancerous, or affected by one or more illnesses affecting the human body, or affected by one or more cancers affecting the human body;
- (b) using the values of the said parameter corresponding to the said sample regions;
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- (c) dividing the value space of the said parameter into ranges using the said values of the said parameter corresponding to the said sample regions and the said known results.
A method for assisting the investigation in detection of cancer in a region in a first digital image of a human body or a human body part which is being investigated for presence of cancer, the said method comprising:
- (a) using a set of parameters which can be used to characterize a region of a digital image;
- (b) using sample regions wherein a sample region is a region or segment of a second digital image of human body or a digital image of a part of a human body, with a known result wherein a known result identifies a region or segment as cancerous, or healthy, or unhealthy but not cancerous, or affected by one or more illnesses affecting the said region of the human body, or affected by one or more cancers affecting the said region of the human body;
- (c) dividing the value space of one or more parameters in the said set of parameters into ranges wherein the said division of a parameter into ranges is done by using the values of that said parameter and the said known results corresponding to the said sample regions;
- (d) using values of the parameters in a said set of the parameters, corresponding to the said region in the said first digital image of a human body part or human body which is being investigated for presence of cancer;
- (e) for the said value of each parameter in a said set of the parameters corresponding to the said region in the said first digital image, identifying the said range of values of the said parameter within which said value of that said parameter falls;
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- (f) using one of more said identified ranges of parameter values for assisting the investigation in detection of cancer.
Two or more computers used for dividing value space of a set of parameters into ranges wherein the said ranges of values of parameters are used for detection of cancer in a region in a digital image of a human body part or human body being investigated for presence of cancer, the said computers communicating parameter values and result corresponding to each of the sample regions to each other computer wherein a sample region is a region or a segment of a second digital image of human body or a part of a human body, with a known result wherein a known result identifies a region as cancerous or healthy or unhealthy but not cancerous or affected by one or more illnesses affecting the said region of the human body or affected by one or more cancers affecting the said region of the human body.
A method of a first computer receiving a digital image of a human body part or human body for cancer diagnosis from a second computer over a computer network and the said first computer sending a reply to the said second computer wherein the said reply contains the diagnostics for cancer done on the said digital image.
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