Implant design analysis suite
AssigneeZimmer, Inc.
InventorMohamed Rashwan Mahfouz
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Abstract
A method for anatomical analysis and joint implant design. Embodiments provide users with the ability to anatomically analyze a single bone or a series of bones that exist in a database, evaluate surgical landmarks and axes, identify differences among specific characteristics of a given population, and modify existing implants or create new implant designs based on anatomical analyses.
Claims14
A method to locate and measure surgically relevant anatomic features and propagate these measurements to different populations using a programmable data processing system, comprising the steps of:
- (a) using a data input device to provide a programmable data processing system with a base template bone data set and a match bone data set, the base template bone data set and the match bone data set each comprising an image generated by a medical imager;
- (b) storing the base template bone data set and the match the bone data set in a database;
- (c) establishing a correlation between the at least one surgically relevant anatomic features and/or landmark from the base template bone data set with a corresponding surgically relevant anatomic features and/or landmark from the match bone data set;
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- (d) propagating the at least one surgically relevant anatomic features and/or landmark from the base template bone data set across a bone data population using a statistical atlas.
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A method of organizing a database of bone data, the method comprising:
- (a) obtaining three dimensional data corresponding to a same type of bone to provide a population of bone data comprising multiple bones;
- (b) associating at least one of a landmark and an axis with each of the multiple bones across the population;
- (c) classifying the multiple bones using at least two criteria comprising bone source, physician name, DICOM data, age, sex, bone size, bone length, and ethnicities;
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- (d) providing search queries to organize the multiple bones using at least one of the criteria.
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