Hierarchical segmentation and identification of thoracic vertebra using learning-based edge detection and coarse-to-fine deformable model

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1072-1083

  Ma, Jun ^a,b   Lu, Le ^a,b  

^a Molecular Imaging   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse to fine shape deformation model; Computed tomography; Shape based medical image segmentation; Supervised edge detection; Vertebra identification; Vertebra segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST FUNCTIONS; DEFORMATION; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MESH GENERATION; OBJECT DETECTION;

DEFORMABLE SURFACE MODELS; DISCRIMINATIVE CLASSIFIERS; HIERARCHICAL SEGMENTATION; IDENTIFICATION SCHEME; SHAPE BASED; SHAPE DEFORMATION; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODEL; TWO-STAGE SEGMENTATIONS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84885369774     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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