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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JEB.2012.17.1.73

Bone Segmentation Method based on Multi-Resolution using Iterative Segmentation and Registration in 3D Magnetic Resonance Image  

Park, Sang-Hyun (Automation and Systems Research Institute, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
Lee, Soo-Chan (Samsung Electronics)
Yun, Il-Dong (School of Digital Information Engineering, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Lee, Sang-Uk (Automation and Systems Research Institute, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.17, no.1, 2012 , pp. 73-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, medical equipments are developed and used for diagnosis or studies. In addition, demand of techniques which automatically deal with three dimensional medical images obtained from the medical equipments is growing. One of the techniques is automatic bone segmentation which is expected to enhance the diagnosis efficiency of osteoporosis, fracture, and other bone diseases. Although various researches have been proposed to solve it, they are unable to be used in practice since a size of the medical data is large and there are many low contrast boundaries with other tissues. In this paper, we present a fast and accurate automatic framework for bone segmentation based on multi-resolutions. On a low resolution step, a position of the bone is roughly detected using constrained branch and mincut which find the optimal template from the training set. Then, the segmentation and the registration are iteratively conducted on the multiple resolutions. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we make an experiment with femur and tibia from 50 test knee magnetic resonance images using 100 training set. The proposed method outperformed the constrained branch and mincut in aspect of segmentation accuracy and implementation time.
Keywords
Bone Segmentation; Registration; MR images; Multi-resolution; Constrained branch-and-mincut;
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