Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for upper extremity analysis and modeling using medical imaging. The systems and methods may be used to identify and segment both muscle and fatty tissue directly from the standard clinical images, and may be fully automated, thus providing rapid assessments back to the clinician and seamless integration into the clinical decision-making workflow.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for automatic muscle segmentation are provided. The method includes receiving a high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) image obtained by a magnetic resonance imaging (MM) system and splitting the high-resolution 3D image into high-resolution 3D sub-images. Furthermore, the method includes acquiring low-resolution 3D sub-images of the high-resolution 3D sub-images and determining a boundary box within each corresponding low-resolution 3D sub-image. Moreover, the method includes determining a crop box for each boundary box, cropping each high-resolution 3D sub-image based on its corresponding crop box, and segmenting at least one muscle from the cropped box high-resolution 3D sub-image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for automatic muscle segmentation. The method includes: receiving a high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) image obtained by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system; splitting the high-resolution 3D image into high-resolution 3D sub-images; acquiring low-resolution 3D sub-images of the high-resolution 3D sub-images; determining a boundary box within each corresponding low-resolution 3D sub-image; determining a crop box for each boundary box; cropping each high-resolution 3D sub-image based on its corresponding crop box; and segmenting at least one muscle from the cropped box high-resolution 3D sub-image.

Abstract: An support rack system, which may be electrically conductive, has one or more generally horizontal crossbars. Each crossbar has a front face and a spaced-apart rear face. Each of the crossbar faces is interconnected at one or more spaced-apart locations to reveal at least one pocket. The crossbar faces are matingly connected adjacent at least one of the pockets. The mating connection of the crossbars has at least one aperture penetrating therethrough. The rack system also has one or more generally parallel, vertically oriented support bars. At least one of the support bars bears a mechanism adapted to attach said crossbars to said support bar with one or more of the crossbar aperture or the crossbar pocket.