| US 7,555,153 B2 | ||
| Non-invasive joint evaluation | ||
| Johanne Martel-Pelletier, Saint-Lambert (Canada); Jean Pierre Pelletier, Saint-Lambert (Canada); Fabrice Ganansia, Palaiseau (France); Françoys Labonté, Longueuil (Canada); François Abram, Montreal (Canada); and Jean-Pierre Raynauld, Boucherville (Canada) | ||
| Assigned to Arthrovision Inc., Montreal (Canada) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 03, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/3,970. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/584663, filed on Jul. 01, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0002600 A1, Jan. 05, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61K 35/34 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—131 [382/128; 424/548; 623/18.11] | 49 Claims |
| 1. A musculoskeletal imaging system, comprising:
a source of patient imaging data resulting from an imaging acquisition from a joint of a patient,
a source of feature data extracted from imaging data resulting from imaging acquisitions from joints of different individuals
affected by different diseases, wherein the feature data includes disease characteristic categorization information for a
plurality of disease categories, and
a comparison module that is operative to compare the patient imaging data with the feature data, and is 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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