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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
May. 03, 2021
Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Victor D. Snyder, Erie, CO (US);
Medtronic Navigation, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Abstract
A method of detecting a vertebral endplate rim according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes receiving, at a processor, a binary mask of a vertebra; applying a Laplacian filter to the binary mask to yield a processed image; identifying, in the processed image, a set of edges having a sharpness that exceeds a predetermined threshold; deformably registering a template to a plurality of points corresponding to at least some of the edges in the set of edges; excluding some of the plurality of points based on at least one predetermined criterion; and generating additional points by interpolating among a remaining subset of the plurality of points to yield a set of points defining an endplate rim of the vertebra.