An algorithm of degenerative vertebral contour detection in 3D space

作者：Qiu Han^*; Zhu Hong

来源：Journal of Computational Information Systems, 2012, 8(4): 1765-1773.

• 3-D image
• 3-D space
• 3D thinning
• Bone structure
• Contour detection
• Contour structure
• Human spine
• Medical images
• Segmentation methods
• Spatial images
• Spatial positions

Human spine structure is very complicated with spatial positions intertwined or crisscrossed. It is difficult to use the traditional segmentation method to segment every individual vertebra in medical image. There is no way to reconstruct the single vertebra 3-D image but to obtain a complete vertebra 3-D image. This paper suggests a kind of 3-D spatial image thinning algorithm which can be used to achieve the detection of vertebral contour structure in 3-D space and to segment the conjoined bone structure image. The experiment results indicate that this algorithm is of the significant segmentation eifects of the degenerated vertebral 3-D image and achieving the due purpose.

• 出版日期2012
• 单位Polytechnic university