Piecewise recognition of bone skeleton profiles via an iterative Hough transform approach without re-voting

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 9413, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ricca, Giorgio ^a   Beltrametti, Mauro C ^a   Massone, Anna Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b CNR SPIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

algebraic plane curves; Hough transform; image processing

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; BONE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ALGEBRAIC CURVES; HUMAN SKELETON; ITERATIVE APPROACH; PATTERN RECOGNITION PROCEDURES; PIECE-WISE; PLANE CURVES;

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84943397712     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2080960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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