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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/SSIAI.2008.4512319
