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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2006
Applicant:
Anna Jerebko, West Chester, PA (US);
Inventor:
Anna Jerebko, West Chester, PA (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for detecting bone and bone disease using MRI images includes: detecting and segmenting bone borders using dark bone border intensity information from an MRI image; and detecting bone disease within a segmented image region.