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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Dehui.
Other Authors: Vitali Zagorodnov
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50888