CVBIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. Extraction of bone contours from x-ray images is an important first step in computer analysis of medical images. It is more complex than the segmentation of CT and MR im...
ICIP
2003
IEEE
2003
IEEE
A fully automatic algorithm for contour detection of bones in hand radiographs using active contours
14 years 6 months ago
This paper1 presents an algorithm for automatically detecting bone contours from hand radiographs using active contours. Prior knowledge is first used to locate initial contours f...