• DocumentCode
    3380584
  • Title

    Analysis Tool for Digitized Cervical and Lumbar Vertebrae Images

  • Author

    Gururajan, Arunkumar ; Kamalakannan, Sridharan ; Shahriar, Muneem ; Sari-Sarraf, Hamed

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    24-26 March 2008
  • Firstpage
    197
  • Lastpage
    200
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a customized, hierarchical and modular analysis tool for segmenting radiographic images of cervical and lumbar spine. This scientific tool is being developed in close collaboration with experts at the national library of medicine (NLM), and is intended for use in content-based image retrieval systems, operating on radiographic spine image repositories.
  • Keywords
    bone; diagnostic radiography; image segmentation; medical image processing; cervical-lumbar spine; content-based image retrieval system; digitized cervical-lumbar vertebrae image; image analysis tool; radiographic image segmention; radiographic spine image repository; Biomedical imaging; Content based retrieval; Image analysis; Image retrieval; Image segmentation; Libraries; Mathematical model; Radiography; Shape; Spine;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image Analysis and Interpretation, 2008. SSIAI 2008. IEEE Southwest Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Fe, NM
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2296-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2297-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SSIAI.2008.4512319
  • Filename
    4512319