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Title: Edge detection of femur bone - A comparative study
Authors: Kumar, Jr., H.
Chaturvedi, A.
Issue Date: 2010
Citation: Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, ICSIP 2010, 2010, Vol., , pp.281-285
Abstract: Edge detection of femur in X - ray images is an important pre processing step in segmentation and 3 - D reconstruction of femur. A typical femur image is generally very noisy. A lot of edges caused by the muscles and other bones can easily mislead the edge detection algorithm. Particularly, the femoral head overlapping the pelvic bone makes it very difficult to get a clear edge of the femur head. The edge caused by the abdominal muscles around the femur shaft can also mislead the edge detection algorithm. These extraneous edges and noise make edge detection very difficult and challenging, which is not well solved. Classical edge detectors fail miserably due to the high inhomogeneous nature of the femur X - ray images. This paper compares a new approach to edge detection of femur X - ray images using Wavelet transforms with classical edge detectors. The Wavelet based edge detection algorithm combines the coefficients of wavelet transforms on a series of scales and significantly improves the result. It is found that Wavelet based technique works much better than classical edge detectors. �2010 IEEE.
URI: http://idr.nitk.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7805
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