Patent ID: 11928815
Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A medical image analysis apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing at least one instruction to be executed by the processor,
wherein the at least one instruction, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
receive a frontal image of a spine and separate vertebral bodies from a vertebrae constituting the spine in the frontal image;
extract a contour of each of the vertebral bodies;
deform a 3D vertebral body model prepared in advance to match with the contour of each vertebral body;
detect an upper plane and a lower plane of each vertebral body in a matched 3D vertebral body model;
determine an inclination of each vertebral body based on the upper plane and the lower plane of each vertebral body; and
calculate a Cobb's angle based on the inclination of the vertebral body.