Method for fast and accurate segmentation processing from prior shape: Application to femoral head segmentation on x-ray images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7259, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chav, Ramnada ^a,b,c   Cresson, Thierry ^a,b,c   Kauffmann, Claude ^c,d   De Guise, Jacques A ^a,b,c,d  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary extraction; Image transformation; Prior shape; Ribbon like zone; Segmentation; Straightening

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY EXTRACTION; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; FEMORAL HEADS; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE REGIONS; IMAGE TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS; LOW SENSITIVITY; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PARTIAL INFORMATION; RECTANGULAR IMAGE; SEGMENTATION PROCESS; SEGMENTATION PROCESSING; SHAPE SEGMENTATION; X-RAY IMAGE;

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 71749087362     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.812459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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