System and method for hierarchical multi-level feature image synthesis and representation

A method for synthesizing a diagnostic breast image, comprising:

• obtaining a plurality of object maps corresponding to respective image slices of a patient's breast tissue, wherein each object map is generated by combining feature maps from a plurality of multi-level feature modules and one or more of the plurality of object maps include a probability region of at least one high-dimensional object within the respective image slice;
• processing the plurality of object maps to identify one or more characteristics of the at least one high-dimensional object across the image slices;
• generating a composite two-dimensional synthesized image by selecting and combining image data from a plurality of the image slices based on the characteristics of the at least one high-dimensional object, wherein the composite two-dimensional synthesized image depicts the at least one high-dimensional object;
• and
• outputting the composite two-dimensional synthesized image for display.

A system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing executable instructions;
• and
• one or more processors in communication with the computer-readable memory, wherein, when the one or more processors execute the executable instructions, the one or more processors perform:
• obtain a plurality of object maps corresponding to respective image slices of a patient's breast tissue, wherein each object map is generated by combining feature maps from a plurality of multi-level feature modules and one or more of the plurality of object maps include a probability region of at least one high-dimensional object within the respective image slice;
• process the plurality of object maps to identify one or more characteristics of the at least one high-dimensional object across the image slices;
• generate a composite two-dimensional synthesized image by selecting and combining image data from a plurality of the image slices based on the characteristics of the at least one high-dimensional object, wherein the composite two-dimensional synthesized image depicts the at least one high-dimensional object;
• and
• output the composite two-dimensional synthesized image for display.