METHOD OF AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF THE CONTOURS OF A PREDEFINED BONE, DERIVED METHODS AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS

摘要

The invention relates to a method of automatic identification of the contours of at least one portion of a predefined bone on the basis of a plurality of images representing parallel sections through a measurement volume comprising said portion of bone and which are obtained by a medical imaging technique. According to the invention, such a method comprises in particular: a step of obtaining at least one shape of closed contour in at least one of said filtered images; a step of associating with each of said shapes a tag selected within a predefined bone-related nomenclature; a step of classifying said shapes so as to form at least one group of shapes delimiting a common volume isolated in space; a step of selecting the shapes of said group of target shapes.