Image analysis – Applications – Biomedical applications
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-12
2011-10-11
Koziol, Stephen (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Biomedical applications
C382S100000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08036438
ABSTRACT:
An outline detection apparatus which detects an outline of a tooth in a dental image, including: a rectangular range specification device for estimating portions in the dental image as a tooth, gum, and background respectively, and specifying rectangular ranges with predetermined pixels in the positions estimated as the tooth, gum, and background; and a site estimation device for acquiring a characteristic quantity based on color information of the pixels in the rectangular ranges, finding a classification vector which maximizes the Fischer ratio based on the characteristic quantity, and estimating which of the tooth range, the gum range, and the background range, pixels other than the pixels in the rectangular ranges are positioned in according to comparison between a predetermined threshold value and an inner product between the classification vector and a pixel value vector based on color information on pixels other than the pixels in the rectangular ranges.
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Holtz Holtz Goodman & Chick PC
Koziol Stephen
Olympus Corporation
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