[Insight-users] Bone Segmentation from MR Volume

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Taru,

Are you correcting your images for field inhomogenity
before running the segmentations ?


   Please let us know,


        Luis


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Taru S wrote:
> /Dear ITK developers,
> /
> I  am working on the segmentation of the anatomical structures from the 
> knee MR 3D volume. I tried some of the region growing segmentation 
> algorithms (confidence connected, connected threshold, neighborhood 
> connected etc) and got some success with the segmentation of the Tibia 
> bone but the results aren't good for the Femur.
>  
> The intensity based thresholds don't work well with the MR so it is hard 
> to define the anatomical boundaries.
>  
> I tried  ITK-SNAP for the same. The Region Competition approach works 
> well for Tibia but not for others because of the intensity issue.  The 
> Edge Feature approach results in leaks ( I tried different advection and 
> curvature velocities wrt propagation vel ).
>  
> I will really appreciate your advise on the approach I should follow for 
> this segmentation.
>  
> Thank You,
> Taru
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