Stewart Wang,Sven Alan Holcombe,Hannu Huhdanpaa,June Sullivan,Carla Kohoyda-Inglis
申请号：
US14014485
公开号：
US09241634B2
申请日:
2013.08.30
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
A computer-implemented method is provided for anatomically indexing a subject. The method includes: receiving image scan data representing a volume of a subject, where the image scan data is comprised of a plurality of image slices of the subject and includes at least a portion of a vertebral column of the subject； identifying the vertebral canal of the vertebral column of the subject in the image scan data； determining a plurality of markers for the vertebral column, where each marker is indicative of a different vertebral body of the vertebral column and includes its location in the image scan data defined in a coordinate system, such that the plurality of markers define a vertebral level coordinate system； and storing each marker along with its location in a database. The markers can subsequently be used to reference other anatomical components of the subject across different image scans.
