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
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