Image segmentation of bone in X-ray pictures of feet

Author

Liang, Jian ; Pan, Bao-chang ; Huang, Yong-hui ; Fan, Xiao-yan ; Tan, Jian-hui

Author_Institution

Fac. of Autom., Guangdong Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

12-15 July 2009

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

61

Abstract

As the dynamic range of the targets in X-ray images of feet is wide, and the overlapping interval of the background gray value and the target is large, this article comes up with a bone-image segmentation method in X-ray pictures of feet. First of all, composite enhancement will be applied, then the distribution features of target will be exploited to carry out a dynamic partition, finally density function will be incorporated to make the segmentation. The experiment has proved that this method can effectively separate the bone image of feet.

Keywords

image enhancement; image segmentation; medical image processing; X-ray pictures; background gray value; bone image segmentation method; density function; image composite enhancement; Biomedical imaging; Bones; Density functional theory; Dynamic range; Humans; Image segmentation; Machine vision; Partitioning algorithms; Wavelet analysis; X-ray imaging; Bone image; Density function; Dynamic partition; X-ray picture of feet;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition, 2009. ICWAPR 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Baoding

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3728-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3729-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICWAPR.2009.5207435

Filename

5207435