VERFAHREN ZUR MANIPULATION MEDIZINISCHER BILDER

摘要

The invention and the embodiments described in this invention provide new techniques for manipulating digital images and is particularly useful for extracting tissues (i.e., assigning tissue boundary locations) from medical images. These techniques can be applied to diagnosing arthritis and for monitoring disease progression or response to therapeutic intervention. The invention provides for means to extract the articular cartilage from medical images for analysis purposes.