Automatic Vertebral Column Extraction by Whole-Body Bone SPECT Scan

Bone extraction and division can enhance the accuracy of diagnoses based on whole-body bone SPECT data. This study developed a method for using conventional SPECT for automatic recognition of the vertebral column. A novel feature of the proposed approach is a novel “bone graph" image descriptio...

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Main Authors: Sheng-Fang Huang, Hao-Yu Chao, Pan-Fu Kao, Wei-Chih Shen, Yu-Hsiang Chou, Shu-Hsin Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/647548