Patent Document ID: 9977982
Application ID: 15186572
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A medical image processing method for capturing anatomical features of a patient on a basis of medical image records, comprising: a) receiving, by an image processing system, a patient image record, from a medical image recording device, coupled to the image processing system; b) reading obtaining, by the image processing system, a reference image record from a reference database coupled to the image processing system; c) localizing, by the image processing system, joints within the patient image record and within the reference image record, using a pattern recognition method; d) at the localized joints, segmenting, by the image processing system, the patient image record into patient image segments and segmenting the reference image record into reference image segments; e) establishing, by the image processing system, a segment-individual image deformation for a respective reference image segment or patient image segment, by means of which image deformation image structures of the reference image segment are mapped to corresponding image structures of the patient image segment; and f) capturing, by the image processing system, an anatomical feature on a basis of the segment-individual maps between the reference image segments and the patient image segments; wherein the image processing system uses a processor associated with at least one of: radiological, angiographic, sonographic, and tomographic image processing device.