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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1999
Brent J. Liu, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Hyeonjoon Shim, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David Edelstein, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Eric Duff, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaoli Bi, Cerritos, CA (US);
Compumed, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
An automatic segmentation module with an open architecture that automatically generates a contour of a target bone based on a digital image. In one embodiment, the digital image can include an extremity, such as a hand with three digits and a calibration wedge. The automatic segmentation module receives the digital image as an input, and automatically segments the target bone by utilizing an object-oriented approach. This approach extracts intermediate target objects and uses these intermediate target objects to refine or limit the search space in order to extract the final target object.