2019/04/16 by Kang Cheol Kim, Hyun Cheol Cho, Kim, Kang Cheol +7 · 1 citation
Dentistry · Engineering · Medicine · #COVID-19 diagnosis using AI #Dental Radiography and Imaging #FOS: Physical sciences #Medical Imaging and Analysis #Medical Physics (physics.med-ph) #Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1904.07624
openalex publication_date 2019/04/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
For compression fracture detection and evaluation, an automatic X-ray image segmentation technique that combines deep-learning and level-set methods is proposed. Automatic segmentation is much more difficult for X-ray images than for CT or MRI images because they contain overlapping shadows of thoracoabdominal structures including lungs, bowel gases, and other bony structures such as ribs. Additional difficulties include unclear object boundaries, the complex shape of the vertebra, inter-patient variability, and variations in image contrast. Accordingly, a structured hierarchical segmentation method is presented that combines the advantages of two deep-learning methods. Pose-driven learning is used to selectively identify the five lumbar vertebra in an accurate and robust manner. With knowledge of the vertebral positions, M-net is employed to segment the individual vertebra. Finally, fine-tuning segmentation is applied by combining the level-set method with the previously obtained segmentation results. The performance of the proposed method was validated using clinical data, resulting in center position detection error of 25.35±10.86 and a mean Dice similarity metric of 91.60±2.22%.