Patent 9014440 was granted and assigned to Thiagarajar College of Engineering on April, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method for detecting a cyst from a dental radiographic image is provided. The system and method comprises comparing the radiographic image to a plurality of template images, calculating a cross correlation coefficient between a plurality of regions in the radiographic image and a corresponding plurality of regions in the template image, determining a cyst region in the radiographic image based on a value of the cross correlation coefficient and computing a severity level of the cyst.