System and method for synthetic breast tissue image generation by high density element suppression

A computer-implemented for processing images of breast tissue, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• feeding image data of a plurality of images of a breast as an input into an image processor of an image generation and display system;
• identifying, by the image processor, image portions depicting breast tissue and image portions depicting a high density element generated by imaging the high density object together with breast tissue;
• executing, by the image processor, a first image processing method comprising:
• enhancing identified image portions depicting breast tissue, suppressing identified image portions depicting the high density element, and generating, a first two-dimensional (2D) synthesized image based at least in part upon enhanced breast tissue image portions and suppressed high density element image portions;
• executing, by the image processor, a second image processing method comprising:
• enhancing identified image portions depicting the high density element, and generating a second 2D synthesized image based at least in part upon enhanced high density element portions;
• combining, by the image processor, the first 2D synthesized image generated by the first image processing method and the second 2D synthesized image generated by the second image processing method to generate a 2D composite synthesized image;
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• presenting the 2D composite synthesized image through a display of the image generation and display system.