TY - BOOK ID - 7987510 TI - Segmentation of hand bone for bone age assessment PY - 2013 SN - 9814451657 9814451665 PB - Singapore : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Bones -- Growth. KW - Bones -- Radiography. KW - Skeletal maturity. KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Biomedical Engineering KW - Bones KW - Radiography. KW - Growth. KW - Bone age of human beings KW - Maturity, Skeletal KW - Skeletal age of human beings KW - Bone KW - Bone development KW - Bone growth KW - Osteogenesis KW - Growth KW - Engineering. KW - Radiology. KW - Medical physics. KW - Radiation. KW - Biomedical engineering. KW - Biomedical Engineering. KW - Signal, Image and Speech Processing. KW - Imaging / Radiology. KW - Medical and Radiation Physics. KW - Clinical engineering KW - Medical engineering KW - Bioengineering KW - Biophysics KW - Engineering KW - Medicine KW - Physics KW - Radiology KW - Health physics KW - Health radiation physics KW - Medical radiation physics KW - Radiotherapy physics KW - Radiation therapy physics KW - Radiological physics KW - Radiation KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Age KW - Human beings KW - Human skeleton KW - Age determination KW - Diseases KW - Radiology, Medical. KW - Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. KW - Clinical radiology KW - Radiology, Medical KW - Radiology (Medicine) KW - Medical physics KW - Signal processing. KW - Image processing. KW - Speech processing systems. KW - Pictorial data processing KW - Picture processing KW - Processing, Image KW - Imaging systems KW - Optical data processing KW - Computational linguistics KW - Electronic systems KW - Information theory KW - Modulation theory KW - Oral communication KW - Speech KW - Telecommunication KW - Singing voice synthesizers KW - Processing, Signal KW - Information measurement KW - Signal theory (Telecommunication) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7987510 AB - The objective of this Brief is to provide a solution to the unsolved technical problem in segmentation for the automated bone age assessment system. The task is accomplished by first applying the modified histogram equalized module, then applying the proposed automated anisotropic diffusion technique. It is followed by a novel fuzzy quadruple division scheme to optimize the central segmentation algorithm, and then an additional quality assurance scheme. The designed segmentation framework works without demanding scarce resources such as training sets and skillful operators. The results have shown that the designed framework is capable of separating the soft-tissue and background from the hand bone with high accuracy. This Brief should be especially useful for students and professional researchers in the Biomedical and image processing fields. ER -