Hough Forest-based Corner Detection for Cervical Spine Radiographs
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The cervical spine (neck region) is highly sensitive to trauma related injuries, which must be analysed carefully by emergency physicians. In this work, we propose a Hough Forest-based corner detection method for cervical spine radiographs, as a first step towards a computer-aided diagnostic tool. We propose a novel patch-based model based on two-stage supervised learning (classification and regression) to estimate the corners of cervical vertebral bodies. Our method is evaluated using 106 cervical x-ray images consisting of 530 vertebrae and 2120 corners, which have been demarcated manually by an expert radiographer. The results show promising performance of the proposed algorithm, with a lowest median error of 1.98 mm.
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