System and Method for Fusing Computer Assisted Detection in a Multi-Modality, Multi-Dimensional Breast Imaging Environment

A computer system comprising:

• a display;
• a computer readable medium having a data structure stored thereon, the data structure comprising a data volume including fused Computer Assisted Detection (CAD) information, the CAD information including an integration of CAD information obtained from a plurality of different image data sets, the image data sets including images of a common object but acquired using a image acquisition systems of a corresponding plurality of different modalities;
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• transform software, stored on the computer readable medium and operable to transform the data volume from a first coordinate system to a coordinate system specific to the display to enable display.

A computer system comprising:

• a workstation comprising:
• a communication link couplable to a plurality of imaging systems of different modalities;
• a processing device, coupled to the communication link;
• a computer readable medium coupled to the processing device and having program code stored thereon, the program code comprising:
• computer assisted detection (CAD) program code, operable when executed upon by the processing device to process image data sets received from each of the imaging systems in accordance with its respective modality of each imaging system, to provide respective personalized CAD data sets for association with each image data set;
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• transform program code operable when executed upon by the processing device to transform the personalized CAD data sets to a common geometry;
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• merge program code operable to selectively merge the CAD data sets to provide one or more fused CAD data sets.