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