| CPC G06T 7/0012 (2013.01) [G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G16H 70/60 (2018.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30016 (2013.01)] | 21 Claims |
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1. A method for providing a diagnostic auxiliary information related to a brain, the method comprising:
obtaining a brain-related image;
segmenting the brain-related image into at least three regions of the brain, wherein the regions of the brain include a gray matter, a ventricle, and a white matter hyperintensity;
determining a reference boundary in consideration of a distance between the gray matter and the ventricle, wherein the reference boundary is defined as a boundary between the ventricle and the gray matter, and determined by dividing a distance between a first point on the ventricle region and a second point on the gray matter region at a predetermined first ratio; and
calculating a disease index based on a distance between the reference boundary and a region of the white matter hyperintensity and a region information of the white matter hyperintensity,
wherein the region information includes thickness or area, and
wherein the disease index includes a first disease index and a second disease index,
the first disease index is calculated based on the region information of the white matter hyperintensity located inside the reference boundary, and
the second disease index is calculated based on the region information of the white matter hyperintensity located outside the reference boundary.
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