Heterogeneous Computing for Vertebra Detection and Segmentation in X-Ray Images

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="640208.fig.006a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijbi/volume-2011/640208/figures/640208.fig.006a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Original image</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="640208.fig.006b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijbi/volume-2011/640208/figures/640208.fig.006b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Edge detection</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="640208.fig.006c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijbi/volume-2011/640208/figures/640208.fig.006c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>Edge polygonal approximation</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="d"><td><img alt="640208.fig.006d" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijbi/volume-2011/640208/figures/640208.fig.006d.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(d) </b>Points of interest detection</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="e"><td><img alt="640208.fig.006e" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijbi/volume-2011/640208/figures/640208.fig.006e.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(e) </b>Vertebra detection</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="f"><td><img alt="640208.fig.006f" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijbi/volume-2011/640208/figures/640208.fig.006f.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(f) </b>Segmentation result</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Illustration of the whole framework for the segmentation.</table>

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

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Figure 6: Heterogeneous Computing for Vertebra Detection and Segmentation in X-Ray Images 