Inventors:
Jamie Perry - Champaign IL, US
David Kuehn - Champaign IL, US
Michael S. Goldwasser - Wilmington NC, US
Brad Sutton - Savoy IL, US
Assignee:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - Urbana IL
International Classification:
G06T 15/00, G06K 9/00
Abstract:
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an imaging device having a Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) scanner to generate MRI data associated with soft tissue of a patient, and supply said MRI data to diagnostic equipment that selects one or more normative soft tissue profiles of a select anatomical section, and generates a three dimensional soft tissue image from the MRI data and the one or more normative soft tissue profiles. Additional embodiments are disclosed.