Title
Accurate Fully Automatic Femur Segmentation in Pelvic Radiographs Using Regression Voting
Abstract
Extraction of bone contours from radiographs plays an important role in disease diagnosis, pre-operative planning, and treatment analysis. We present a fully automatic method to accurately segment the proximal femur in anteroposterior pelvic radiographs. A number of candidate positions are produced by a global search with a detector. Each is then refined using a statistical shape model together with local detectors for each model point. Both global and local models use Random Forest regression to vote for the optimal positions, leading to robust and accurate results. The performance of the system is evaluated using a set of 519 images. We show that the fully automated system is able to achieve a mean point-to-curve error of less than 1mm for 98% of all 519 images. To the best of our knowledge, this is the most accurate automatic method for segmenting the proximal femur in radiographs yet reported.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33454-2_44
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
automatic femur segmentation,femur detection,Random Forests,Hough Transform,Constrained Local Models,radiographs
Computer vision,Regression,Pattern recognition,Voting,Computer science,Segmentation,Hough transform,Femur,Artificial intelligence,Radiography,Random forest
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7512
Pt 3
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.87
10
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claudia Lindner124812.67
Thiagarajah S2302.64
Wilkinson J M3313.38
G. A. Wallis4181.65
Timothy F. Cootes54358579.15
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