Patent ID: 9078621
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of determining a basion-dens interval from a set of digital images of an occipital-cervical area, comprising: identifying a first anatomical region in proximity to a basion; identifying a first bone of the first anatomical region coupled to the basion; processing a first image of the set of digital images, comprising: identifying a second anatomical region in proximity to a dens; identifying a second bone of the second anatomical region coupled to the dens; processing the first image of the set of digital images, comprising: repeating the processing of the first image on a second image of the set of digital images to find a second image position of the preselected portion of the basion and a second image position of the preselected portion of the dens, the first and second images defining a processed first subset of images; compiling the first and second image positions of the preselected portion of the basion and the first and second image positions of the preselected portion of the dens to produce a compiled position of the preselected portion of the basion and a compiled position of the preselected portion of the dens from the subset of images, wherein the compiling comprises comparing the first and second image positions of the preselected portion of the basion and first and second image positions of the preselected portion of the dens in the subset of images; and computing a distance between the preselected portion of the basion and the preselected portion of the dens from the compiled position of the preselected portion of the basion and the compiled position of the preselected portion of the dens to establish a computed basion-dens interval (“BDI”).