Spine surface detection from local phase-symmetry enhanced ridges in ultrasound images.

CONCLUSIONS: Our proposed technique successfully performs automatic segmentation of the spine surface - specifically the laminae, ligamentum flava, spinous, transverse and articular processes and can be extended to any bone anatomy present in an US image. This has implications for 3D visualization of bone surfaces and, without loss of generality, the vertebral column. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. PMID: 28786479 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Medical Physics - Category: Physics Authors: Tags: Med Phys Source Type: research