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US 8,509,502 B2Granted
Spine labeling
AssigneeAlgotec Systems Ltd.
InventorsHadar Porat, Shmuel Akerman, Hadas Padan
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Abstract
An image analysis system comprising: (a) an image input module adapted to receive a medical image; and (b) an analytic module adapted to segment the image, identify a plurality of vertebrae and label each vertebra.
Claims30
An image analysis system, the system comprising:
- (a) an image input module adapted to receive a medical image;
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- (b) an analytic module adapted to segment the image into a plurality of aggregates of voxels, to automatically construct a chain of aggregates which could represent vertebrae in a spine, to evaluate at least some of the aggregates in the chain to identify a vertebra which the aggregate corresponds to, and to label each identified vertebra.
A method of automatically identifying vertebrae in a medical image, the method comprising:
- (a) employing analytic circuitry to segment a data set representing a medical image into a plurality of aggregates, and to automatically construct a chain of aggregates which could represent vertebrae in a spine;
- (b) evaluating at least some of the aggregates in the chain to identify a vertebra that the aggregate corresponds to;
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- (c) labeling at least one identified aggregate with an indicator of relative position within a spine.
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A method of identifying vertebrae in a medical image, the method comprising:
- (a) providing a medical image comprising a plurality of aggregates;
- (b) automatically analyzing the aggregates to determine which aggregates correspond to vertebrae, independent of any user identification of a vertebra.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.