A study on the feasibility of active contours on automatic CT bone segmentation

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 793-805

  Truc, Phan T H ^a   Kim, Tae Seong ^a   Lee, Sungyoung ^a   Lee, Young Koo ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

active contours; Bone segmentation; CT images; level set methods

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BONE SEGMENTATION; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT DATA; CT IMAGE; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW; IMAGE CONTRASTS; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; LEVEL SET METHOD; LEVEL SETS; MEDICAL EXPERTS; NOISE LEVELS; PARAMETRIC ACTIVE CONTOURS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; REGION COMPETITION; REGION GROWING; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; THREE MODELS; USER INTERACTION; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

BONE; DROP BREAKUP; GEOMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEVEL MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BONE AND BONES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650608319     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-009-9210-z     Document Type: Article

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