A machine learning approach to extract spinal column centerline from three-dimensional CT data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7259, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Caihua ^a   Li, Yuanzhong ^a   Ito, Wataru ^a   Shimura, Kazuo ^a   Abe, Katsumi ^b  

^a FUJIFILM CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AdaBoost; Curve fitting; Pattern recognition; Spinal column Centerline extraction; Spinal cord detection

Indexed keywords

ADABOOST; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; CENTERLINES; CENTRAL POINT; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CT DATA; HUMAN BODIES; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; ON-MACHINES; REGION INFORMATION; REGION SEGMENTATION; SPINAL COLUMN; SPINAL CORDS; SPLINE CURVE; VERTEBRAL BODY;

CURVE FITTING; DOSIMETRY; EDGE DETECTION; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ROBOT LEARNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING;

EID: 71649109399     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.810982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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