Patent Document ID: 7769213
Application ID: 10577359
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. Apparatus for predicting bone fracture risk in a osteoporotic patient, comprising: a Dual X-ray Absorptiometry scanner configured to scan a body area of the patient to thereby produce a Dual X-ray Absorptiometry image of the body part within said body area; an image analysis module configured to perform shape analysis using an Active Shape Model and to perform texture analysis of the Dual X-ray Absorptiometry image to thereby generate an image data set representative of aspect of the shape of body part and the structure of bone within the body area; and a data comparison module having a database of comparative data sets from Dual X-ray Absorptiometry images of control subjects, to compare the Active Shape Model data set generated from Dual X-ray Absorptiometry image of the patient with the comparative data sets in the database by examining how the location of landmark points deviates from a mean co-ordinates of the comparative data sets, to thereby predict the risk of bone fracture in the patient.