Automated detection and segmentation of vertebral bodies in volumetric abdominal magnetic resonance images

• Main Author: Lin, Dehui.
• Other Authors: Vitali Zagorodnov
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50888
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Detection and segmentation of the column of vertebral bodies are intermediate steps required to identify the bone marrow which is considered as the wrongly labeled visceral adipose tissue in the assessment of abdominal obesity. Motivated by the necessity, a fully automated algorithm is designed to d...