Marie-Pierre Jolly,Christopher V. Alvino,Benjamin L. Odry,Jens Gühring
申请号：
US12426323
公开号：
US08428688B2
申请日:
2009.04.20
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2013
代理人:
摘要：
A method for automatic femur segmentation and condyle line detection. The method includes: scanning a knee of a patient with medical imaging equipment to obtain 3D imaging data with such equipment processing the obtained 3D imaging data in a digital processor to determine two lines tangent to the bottom of the knee condyles in an axial and a coronal plane and automatically scanning the patient in the defined plane. The processing includes: determining an approximate location of the knee using the determined the location to define a volume of interest segmenting the femur in the defined volume of interest and determining a bottom point on the femur portion on a right side and a left side of the segmented femur in an axial and a coronal slice to determine the two lines.
