Segmentation on the trabecular of dental periapicalX-Ray images is very important for osteoporosis screening. Existing methods do not perform well in segmenting the trabecular of dental periapical in X-Ray images due to the presence of large amount of spurious edges. This paper presents a combination of tophat-bothat filtering, histogram equalization contrasting and local adaptive thresholding ...

Methods Normally the 3D skull data from individual patients can be obtained from CT scanner. However, the overhead expenses and the maintenance costs of a CT machine have deterred many dentists and orthodontists from possessing the machine, so only a few orthodontists use the CT for diagnosis and treatment comparing to the x-ray images that are standard procedures for orthodontic measurements. ...

In the segmentation of natural images, most algorithms rely on the concept of occlusion. Intuitively, if all of the pixels in a region are the same color, they are probably part of the same object, which is blocking all of the light from the objects behind it. In x-ray images, however, this assumption is violated. In this paper, we introduce SATISφ, a method for separating objects in a set of x...

We present an initial evaluation of a robotic arm for positioning a 3D echo probe during cardiac catheterization procedures. By tracking the robotic arm, X-ray table and X-ray C-arm, we are able to register the 3D echo images with live 2D X-ray images. In addition, we can also use tracking data from the robotic arm combined with system calibrations to create extended field of view 3D echo image...

Dark-field images are formed from x-ray small-angle scattering signals. The small-angle scattering signals are particularly sensitive to structural variation and density fluctuation on a length scale of several tens to hundreds of nanometers, offering a unique contrast mechanism to reveal subtle structural features of an object. In this study, based on the principle of energy conservation, we d...

Coherent x-ray diffraction microscopy is a method of imaging nonperiodic isolated objects at resolutions limited, in principle, by only the wavelength and largest scattering angles recorded. We demonstrate x-ray diffraction imaging with high resolution in all three dimensions, as determined by a quantitative analysis of the reconstructed volume images. These images are retrieved from the three-...

Image segmentation is an important stage in any image processing process. Regions of interest in the image are extracted from the image and are used to interpret the information in the image. This study investigates the image segmentation of X-ray images and aims at separating the bone from the rest of the X-ray. Basic edge detection techniques and Active Shape Models are the image segmentation...

Rodent monitoring in biomedical laboratories is a time consuming and tedious task. Several automatic solutions that rely on different types of sensors have been proposed. Computer vision provides a significantly more universal and less intrusive solution. In this article we propose a new method to detect and classify three behaviors in rodents: Exploring, Rearing, and Static. The method uses Mo...

Abstmd--We present three terahertz wave (T-ray) tomographic imaging modalities: T-ray computed tomography (T-ray CT), T-ray dinractive tomography (T-ray DT), and tomographic imaging with a Fresnel binaly lens. T-ray CT provides 3-dimensional (3D) images and reveals information about the target for functional imaging. T-ray DT achieves suhmm spatial resolution, and a Binary lens leads a novel im...

PURPOSE Image-guided cardiac interventions involve the use of fluoroscopic images to guide the insertion and movement of interventional devices. Cardiorespiratory gating can be useful for 3D reconstruction from multiple x-ray views and for reducing misalignments between 3D anatomical models overlaid onto fluoroscopy. METHODS The authors propose a novel and potentially clinically useful retros...