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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2015
Shuo LI, London, CA;
Sudhakar Tummala, London, CA;
Kengyeow Tay, London, CA;
Walter Romano, London, CA;
Derek Ho, London, CA;
Said Osman, London, CA;
Shuo Li, London, CA;
Sudhakar Tummala, London, CA;
Kengyeow Tay, London, CA;
Walter Romano, London, CA;
Derek Ho, London, CA;
Said Osman, London, CA;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the prognosis of degenerative disc disorder (DDD) are provided. In one aspect, intervertebral disc loss is predicted based on receiving image data comprising one or more images of the human spine; segmenting, using a processor, disc regions of said one or more images; generating, using the processor, individual biomarkers based on texture features of said segmented disc regions; generating, using the processor, a predicting intervertebral disc loss based in part on the prognostic marker generated from the individual biomarkers.