The in vivo investigation of joint kinematics in normal and injured wrist requires the segmentation of carpal bones from 3D (CT) images and their registration over time. The non-uniformity of bone tissue, ranging from...
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The in vivo investigation of joint kinematics in normal and injured wrist requires the segmentation of carpal bones from 3D (CT) images and their registration over time. The non-uniformity of bone tissue, ranging from dense cortical bone to textured spongy bone, the irregular, small shape of closely packed carpel bones which move with respect to one another, and with respect to CT resolution, augmented with the presence of blood vessels, and the inherent blurring of CT imaging renders the segmentation of carpal bones a challenging task. Specifically, four characteristic difficulties are prominent: (i) gaps or weak edges in the carpal bone surfaces. (ii) diffused edges, (iii) textured regions, and, (iv) extremely narrow inter-bone regions. We review the performance of statistical classification! deformable models, region growing, and morphological operations for this application. We then propose a model which. combines several of these approaches in a single framework. Specifically, initialized seeds grow in a curve evolution implementation of active contours, but where growth is modulated by a skeletally-mediated competition between neighboring regions, thus combining the advantages of local and global region growing methods, region competition and active contours. This approach effectively deals with many of the difficulties presented above as illustrated by numerous examples.
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