A general segmentation method for automatic isolating the carpal-bone in an X-ray DICOM
medical image was proposed in this paper. As the recognition and separation of individual …

Automatic segmentation of X-ray hand images is an important process. In studies such as
skeletal bone age assessment, bone densitometry and analyzing of bone fractures, it is a …

This paper presents a new method to segment bone tissue in an x-ray images. The
proposed method is completely automatic. First of all, it enhances the contrast of the …

Image segmentation is critical and challenging in computer vision and medical image
analysis. Despite decades of research, existing segmentation algorithms are still subject to …

Bone segmentation in radiographic imaging is an intermediate level processing stage for an
automated vision system for the skeletal assessment of children. It is one of the challenging …

Image segmentation operation has a great importance in most medical imaging
applications, by extracting anatomical structures from medical images. There are many …

This paper describes a method for the automatic segmentation of hand-wrist radiographs.
The method consists of region growing and region merging stages. A technique was …

A method for bone segmentation in hand radiographic images using an intensity based
edge detection scheme is presented. Bone segmentation is an intermediate level …

A hand bones radiograph is the gold standard for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) diagnosis. RA is
an inflammatory disease that attacks the joint cartilage which causes premature mortality …

Image segmentation plays a fundamental role in many medical imaging applications by
facilitating the contouring of the regions of interest. In this paper, we propose an accurate …