Automatic detection of vertebrae boundaries in spine images

Automatic detection of vertebrae boundaries in spine images

Ayed, Ismail Ben and Punithakumar, Kumaradevan and Gill, Sukhdeep and Garvin, Gregory John

US Patent 8,965,083 2015

Abstract : Methods and apparatus are disclosed to automatically detect vertebrae boundaries in a spine image. A method to detect a vertebra in a spine image is described, the method comprising generating a rectangle approximation of a reference vertebra. The method also łdots