Patent ID: 11941814
Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 7:
8. A method of identifying and segmenting vertebral bodies from cone beam CT images, the method comprising:
receiving, from a cone beam CT device, a set of x-ray images taken at different angular orientations, each image containing at least one vertebral body;
for each received x-ray image,
identifying and segmenting the at least one vertebral body contained in the x-ray image based on a stored model of vertebral bodies;
determining a confidence level of the identification and segmentation for the each x-ray image;

determining optimal identification and segmentation information based on the confidence levels
wherein the step of determining optimal identification and segmentation information includes excluding the x-ray images that have a lower confidence level than a predetermined confidence level.