An efficient method for segmentation of MRI spine images

2007 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 713-717

  Shi, Ruiqiong ^a   Sun, Dongmei ^a   Qiu, Zhengding ^a   Weiss, Kenneth L ^b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hough transform; Inter vertebral disk; MRI; Segmentation; Spine

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

AUTOMATED METHODS; CINCINNATI; CLINICAL STUDIES; CLINICAL VALUES; EFFICIENT METHODS; INTER-VERTEBRAL DISK; MANUAL OPERATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGES; MR IMAGES; MRI; SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPINAL CORDS; SPINE;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 48149089283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCME.2007.4381830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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