ENHANCED VISUALIZATION OF IN-VIVO BREAST BIOPSY LOCATION FORMEDICAL DOCUMENTATION

摘要

An image processing system and method visually documents and displays the in-vivo location from which a biopsyspecimen was extracted, by processing pre-biopsy and post-biopsy images. Acomposite image is created which visually emphasizesdifferences between the pre-biopsy and post-biopsy images. Preferably three-dimensional, digitized images, displayable in variousprojections, are stored for archival purposes on computer readable media. Animage processor (24) preferably exploits an opticalcorrelator (30) to register the pre-biopsy and post-biopsy images accurately.The images are then compared, voxel-by-voxel, to detectdifferences between pre-biopsy and post-biopsy images. The composite image isdisplayed with synthetic colors, synthetic icons, orother visual clues to emphasize probable in-vivo biopsy locations.