Image Analysis for Computer-Assisted Surgery of Hip Fractures

This paper focuses on the task of automatic feature detection for computer-assisted fixation of hip fractures. The features of interest are the lateral cortex line, the femoral neck centre and the femoral head centre, the latter being the most challenging of all. A nonconventional “divide-and-conquer” knowledgebased approach produces more reliable and faster results than the standard global image processing routine.