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

Claim 0:
1. A medical image analysis method, comprising:
receiving a frontal image of a spine;
separating vertebral bodies from a vertebrae constituting the spine in the frontal image and extracting a contour of each of the vertebral bodies;
deforming a 3D vertebral body model prepared in advance to match with the contour of each vertebral body;
detecting an upper plane and a lower plane of each vertebral body in a matched 3D vertebral body model;
determining an inclination of each vertebral body based on the upper plane and the lower plane of each vertebral body; and
calculating a Cobb's angle based on the inclination of the vertebral body.