A machine learning approach to extract spinal column centerline from three-dimensional CT data.
Caihua WangYuanzhong LiWataru ItoKazuo ShimuraKatsumi AbePublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2009)
Keyphrases
- ct data
- computed tomography
- three dimensional
- ct scans
- automatic segmentation
- ct images
- medical images
- patient specific
- intraoperative
- image reconstruction
- pre operative
- x ray
- statistical shape model
- medical imaging
- prior information
- magnetic resonance images
- image guided
- shape analysis
- lymph nodes
- contrast enhanced
- depth map
- breast cancer
- d objects
- pattern recognition
- multiscale
- image sequences