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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
3D shape prior active contours for an automatic segmentation of a
patient specific femur from a CT scan
D. Almeida, J. Folgado & P.R. Fernandes
IDMEC—Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
R.B. Ruben
ESTG, CDRSP, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
ABSTRACT: The following paper describes a novel approach to a medical image segmentation prob-
lem. The fully automated computational procedure receives as input images from CT scan exams of the
human femur and returns a three dimensional representation of the bone. This patient specific iterative
approach is ...