Bone segmentation
US8306305B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 3, 2011 |
| Grant date | Nov 6, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 3, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2219/008
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of automatically identifying bone components in a medical image data set of voxels, the method comprising: a) applying a first set of one or more tests to accept voxels as belonging to seeds, b) applying a second set of one or more tests to accept seeds as bone seeds, and c) expanding the bone seeds into bone components by progressively identifying candidate bone voxels, adjacent to the bone seeds or to other previously identified bone voxels, as bone voxels, responsive to predetermined criteria which distinguish bone voxels from voxels of other body tissue.
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