Customized Hough transform for robust segmentation of cervical vertebrae from X-ray images

Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 224-228

  Tezmol, A ^a   Sari Sarraf, H ^a   Mitra, S ^a   Long, R ^b   Gururajan, A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Libraries; Noise shaping; Robustness; Shape; Spine; Voting; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; DATA MINING; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECOGNITION; LIBRARIES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); X RAY ANALYSIS;

IMAGE EDGE DETECTION; NOISE-SHAPING; SHAPE; SPINE; VOTING; XRAY IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0041400551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAI.2002.999922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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