Personalized X-Ray 3-D Reconstruction of the Scoliotic Spine From Hybrid Statistical and Image-Based Models

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1422-1435

  Kadoury, Samuel ^a,b   Cheriet, Farida ^a,b   Labelle, Hubert ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atlas based deformable templates; biplanar X ray images; scoliotic vertebra segmentation; statistical model; three dimensional (3 D) spine reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE;

EID: 77952276593     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2016756     Document Type: Article

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