A novel automatically initialized level set approach based on region correlation for lumbar vertebrae CT image segmentation

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, MeMeA 2015 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 291-296

  Li, Yang ^a,b   Liang, Wei ^a   Tan, Jindong ^c   Zhang, Yinlong ^a,b  

^a SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

hybrid morphological filter; image guided surgery; level set method; region correlation; vertebrae segmentation

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; LEVEL SET FORMULATIONS; LEVEL SET METHOD; MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERS; TOPOLOGICAL VARIATIONS; VERTEBRAE SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84939521171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MeMeA.2015.7145215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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