Automated 3D segmentation of vertebral bodies and intervertebral discs from MRI

Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 19-24

  Neubert, Aleš ^a,c   Fripp, Jurgen ^a   Shen, Kaikai ^a   Salvado, Olivier ^a   Schwarz, Raphael ^b   Lauer, Lars ^b   Engstrom, Craig ^c   Crozier, Stuart ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

image segmentation; MRI; spine imaging; statistical shape models

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; 3D SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATED APPROACH; DATA SETS; GREY LEVELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN SPINE; INTENSITY PROFILES; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; LUMBAR SPINES; MRI SCAN; PULSE SEQUENCE; SPINE CURVES; STATISTICAL SHAPE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODEL; VERTEBRAL BODY;

AUTOMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84857016404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2011.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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