A fully automatic vertebra segmentation method using 3D deformable fences

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 343-352

  Kim, Yiebin ^a   Kim, Dongsung ^a  

^a Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

3D deformable fence; Automatic vertebra segmentation; Fence limited labeling

Indexed keywords

3D DEFORMABLE FENCE; ANATOMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; AUTOMATIC METHODS; AUTOMATIC VERTEBRA SEGMENTATION; CT VOLUMES; DEFORMABLE MODELS; GAUSSIAN IMAGES; INITIAL CURVES; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MINIMUM COSTS; PATIENT DATUM; REGION GROWING METHODS; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

CURVE FITTING; DEFORMATION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; LABELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FENCES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67349183946     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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