[Insight-users] Segmentation of a BONE

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi cxxzip_

Bone segmentation can be deceptively easy.

That is, it look easy to get the first 95% of a bone.

The difficulty usually arises when you try to get to the
joints, where calcification is lower, or if you actually
care about the inside of bones, where the trabecular
structure intermixes with the bone marrow.


You may want to start by playing with the region growing filters:

     itkConfidenceConnected
     itkConnectedThreshold

described in the ITK  Software Guide


     http://www.itk.org/ItkSoftwareGuide.pdf


and placing one or several seed point in the cortical bone.

 From the output of that initial test, you will get a feeling
of how difficult it would be to extract the bony structures
that you are looking for.

Hopefully you are doing this with CT images...


    Regards,


       Luis


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cxxzip_ wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new in Insight Seg. Tool and I want to know, what's the best way of
> getting alle voxel that are out of bone material. I have different bones,
> sometimes they are frozen, PEG or macerate.
> 
> Greetings