Patent ID: 7421104

Claim:
A method of automatically assessing skeletal age of hand radiographs, comprising: reading in a radiographic image of both two hands; cropping a first image of the left hand or the right hand from said radiographic image; rotating said first image to make the fingertip of the medius point upwards the vertical; cropping a second image of said medius from said first image; segmenting the phalanges of said medius, comprising smoothing said second image by using a first filter to generate a third image; detecting the edge of said third image by using a second filter and a third filter to generate a fourth image; masking said fourth image to said second image to obtain a phalangeal bone region of interest; extracting a plurality of physiological features of said fourth image to acquire a first data; extracting a plurality of morphological features of said fourth image to obtain a profile; transforming said profile for compressing a second data thereof; delivering said first data and said second data to a neural network for training; and outputting an assessment.