Non-invasive joint evaluation

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2004-12-03

2009-06-30

Tabatabai, Abolfazl (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Applications

Biomedical applications

C382S128000, C424S548000, C623S018110

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07555153

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed, in one general aspect, is a musculoskeletal imaging system that includes a source of feature data extracted from imaging data resulting from imaging acquisitions from joints of different individuals affected by different diseases, and this feature data includes disease characteristic categorization information for a plurality of disease categories. A comparison module is operative to compare patient imaging data resulting from an imaging acquisition from a joint of a patient with the feature data. The comparison module is also operative to provide at least one categorization indicator for the patient imaging data that indicates a correspondence between spatial information in the patient imaging data and the disease categories for which there is extracted categorization information in the feature data.

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