G Guglielmi, D Diacinti, C Van Kuijk, F Aparisi… - European …, 2008 - Springer
Vertebral fractures are the hallmark of osteoporosis and are associated with increased morbility and mortality. Because a majority of vertebral fractures often occur in absence of …
R Korez, B Ibragimov, B Likar… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated and semi-automated detection and segmentation of spinal and vertebral structures from computed tomography (CT) images is a challenging task due to a relatively …
Assessment of medical images and diagnostic decision making of lumbar associated diseases by clinicians is invariably subjective, time consuming and challenging task …
This paper presents a novel 3-D reconstruction method of the scoliotic spine using prior vertebra models with image-based information taken from biplanar X-ray images. We first …
W Hsu, S Antani, LR Long, L Neve… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: With the increasing use of images in disease research, education, and clinical medicine, the need for methods that effectively archive, query, and retrieve these images by …
We propose a medical image segmentation approach based on the Active Shape Model theory. We apply this method for cervical vertebra detection. The main advantage of this …
Purpose Accurate vertebra detection and segmentation are essential steps for automating the diagnosis of spinal disorders. This study is dedicated to vertebra alignment …
M Roberts, TF Cootes, JE Adams - Investigative radiology, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Manual point placement for vertebral morphometry is time-consuming and imprecise. We evaluated the accuracy of semiautomatic computer determination of the …
M Roberts, T Cootes, E Pacheco, J Adams - Academic radiology, 2007 - Elsevier
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Current quantitative morphometric methods of vertebral fracture detection lack specificity, particularly with mild fractures. We use more detailed …