New Patent Issued: System and Method for Identifying Fractures in Digitized X-Rays
Professor Imin Kao, Ph.D (Mechanical Engineering), along with co-inventors, Faisal Khan, MD (Orthopaedics),
and Carlos Gabriel Helguero, Ph.D (Mechanical Engineering) were recently issued a patent titled "System and Method of Identifying Fractures in Digitized X-Rays."
A method is developed for identifying one or more fractures in a digitized X-ray image,
flagging fractures based on the digital X-ray image, and placing a visual indication
of a possible fracture on the modified X-ray image corresponding to the location of
each flagged pixel. The method can facilitate the detection of hairline cracks, which
can often be missed or neglected