Automated Segmentation of Lumbar Vertebrae in Digital Videofluoroscopic Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-52

  Zheng, Yalin ^a,b   Nixon, Mark S ^a   Allen, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fourier descriptors; Hough transform; Low back pain; Lumbar spine; Videofluoroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DOSIMETERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FLUORESCENCE; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEUROLOGY;

FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0347337802     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.819927     Document Type: Article

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