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Segmentation of vertebral contours is an essential task in the design of automatic tools for vertebral fracture assessment. In this paper, we propose a novel segmentation technique which does not require operator interaction. The proposed technique solves the segmentation problem in a hierarchical manner. In a first phase, a coarse estimate of the overall spine alignment and the vertebra locations is computed using a shape model sampling scheme. These samples are used to initialize a second phase of active shape model search, under a nonlinear model of vertebra appearance. The search is constrained by a conditional shape model, based on the variability of the coarse spine location estimates. The technique is evaluated on a data set of manually annotated lumbar radiographs. The results compare favorably to the previous work in automatic vertebra segmentation, in terms of both segmentation accuracy and failure rate.
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Mysling, P., Petersen, K., Nielsen, M., Lillholm, M. (2011). Automatic Segmentation of Vertebrae from Radiographs: A Sample-Driven Active Shape Model Approach. In: Suzuki, K., Wang, F., Shen, D., Yan, P. (eds) Machine Learning in Medical Imaging. MLMI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24319-6_2
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