Segmentation of low contrast features in bone micro-ct images by a constrained region growing approach based on watershed

2007 4th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 968-971

  Peter, Z ^a,b   Bousson, V ^c   Bergot, C ^c   Peyrin, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bones; Image segmentation; Wavelet transform; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; METABOLISM; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; WATERSHEDS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; X RAYS;

MICRO-CT IMAGES; MONOCHROMATIC X-RAY BEAMS; SHAPE CONSTRAINTS; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 36348980989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2007.357015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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