An artifacts removal post-processing for epiphyseal region-of-interest (EROI) localization in automated bone age assessment (BAA)

• Main Authors: Hum, Yan Chai, Lai, Khin Wee, Tan, Tian Swee, Shaikh Salleh, Sheikh-Hussain, Lim, Yee Chea
• Format: Article
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2011
• Subjects: CC Archaeology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/44723/

Background Segmentation is the most crucial part in the computer-aided bone age assessment. A well-known type of segmentation performed in the system is adaptive segmentation. While providing better result than global thresholding method, the adaptive segmentation produces a lot of unwanted noise th...