Morphological and Watershed Segmentation of C-Spine MRI Images
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چکیده
Segmentation of bony structures plays an important role in image-guided surgery of the spine. In this, a novel approach to the segmentation of vertebral bodies from 2D sagittal magnetic resonance images of the spine is discussed. We would like to show that morphological and watershed segmentation could be used as a powerful segmentation tool in the segmentation of cervical(C) -spine MRI images. The structure, shape and morphology of the bony structures in spine images lend itself to the watershed segmentation.
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