System and method for automatic extraction of spinal cord...

Details System and method for automatic extraction of spinal cord... System and method for automatic extraction of spinal cord...

2006-09-06

2010-02-02

Mehta, Bhavesh M (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

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Biomedical applications

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07657072

ABSTRACT:
A method of extracting a spinal cord from a digitized medical image includes providing a digitized medical image, selecting a set of points from said image as candidates for belonging to the spine, initializing a probability for each candidate point to belong to said spine, minimizing a weighted sum of square differences of image intensities of said candidate points and intensities determined by a mathematical model of said spine to estimate parameter values for said model, calculating a residual error for each point from the differences at each point between an estimated image intensity calculated from said estimated model parameters and an actual image intensity, updating the candidate point probabilities from said residual errors, and eliminating candidate points whose probability falls below a predetermined value.

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