Automated determination of the centers of vertebral bodies and intervertebral discs in CT and MR lumbar spine images.
Darko SternTomaz VrtovecFranjo PernusBostjan LikarPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2010)
Keyphrases
- lumbar spine
- computer tomography
- image registration
- three dimensional
- medical images
- image data
- clinical applications
- magnetic resonance
- image analysis
- statistical shape model
- ct and mr images
- contrast enhanced
- ground truth
- x ray images
- mri images
- x ray
- input image
- mr images
- medical image analysis
- region of interest
- segmentation method
- ct scans
- image intensity
- ct images
- medical imaging
- quantitative evaluation
- computed tomography
- medical diagnosis
- nonrigid registration
- automated segmentation
- feature points
- computer vision