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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2011
Hadar Porat, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Gad Miller, Paris, FR;
Shmuel Akerman, Binyamina, IL;
Ido Milstein, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Hadar Porat, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Gad Miller, Paris, FR;
Shmuel Akerman, Binyamina, IL;
Ido Milstein, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Algotec Systems Ltd., Ra'anana, IL;
Abstract
A method of automatically identifying bone components in a medical image data set of voxels, the method comprising: a) applying a first set of one or more tests to accept voxels as belonging to seeds, b) applying a second set of one or more tests to accept seeds as bone seeds, and c) expanding the bone seeds into bone components by progressively identifying candidate bone voxels, adjacent to the bone seeds or to other previously identified bone voxels, as bone voxels, responsive to predetermined criteria which distinguish bone voxels from voxels of other body tissue.