Automated spinal column extraction and partitioning

2006 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 390-393

  Yao, Jianhua ^a   O'Connor, Stacy D ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE REGISTRATION; SPINAL COLUMN EXTRACTION; SPINE DEFORMITY ANALYSIS; WATERSHED ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; GRAPH THEORY; SEARCH ENGINES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33750942129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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