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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2017
Applicant:
Keio University, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Morio Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kota Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshimitsu Aoki, Yokohama, JP;
Ran Choi, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Keio University, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/107 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/4561 (2013.01); A61B 5/0073 (2013.01); A61B 5/0077 (2013.01); A61B 5/1071 (2013.01); A61B 5/1075 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image representing a three-dimensional shape of a surface of a human body, a spinal-column arrangement estimation-unit configured to estimate spinal-column arrangement of the human body using accumulated data, and an angle calculation unit configured to calculate at least one of a Cobb angle and a rotation angle from the estimated spinal-column arrangement are included.