Spinal vertebrae localization and analysis on disproportionality in curvature using radiography—a comprehensive review

In human anatomy, the central nervous system (CNS) acts as a significant processing hub. CNS is clinically divided into two major parts: the brain and the spinal cord. The spinal cord assists the overall communication network of the human anatomy through the brain. The mobility of body and the structure of the whole skeleton is also balanced with the help of the spinal bone, along with reflex control. According to the Global Burden of Disease 2010, worldwide, back pain issues are the leading cause of disability. The clinical specialists in the field estimate almost 80% of the population with experience of back issues. The segmentation of the vertebrae is considered a difficult procedure through imaging. The problem has been catered by different researchers using diverse hand-crafted features like Harris corner, template matching, active shape models, and Hough transform. Existing methods do not handle the illumination changes and shape-based variations. The low-contrast and unclear view of the vertebrae also makes it difficult to get good results. In recent times, convolutional nnural Network (CNN) has taken the research to the next level, producing high-accuracy results. Different architectures of CNN such as UNet, FCN, and ResNet have been used for segmentation and deformity analysis. The aim of this review article is to give a comprehensive overview of how different authors in different times have addressed these issues and proposed different mythologies for the localization and analysis of curvature deformity of the vertebrae in the spinal cord.

Intensity Profiles in Active Shape Model

Active shape model is a deformable model which has proven very successful results in the field of image segmentation. The success of ASM model lies in its ability to find the right positions of all landmark points which define the object shape. Intensity profiles are an important part of the Active Shape Models (ASM) which help steer and optimize matching process. However, their simplicity in the standard version of the ASM turns into weakness. The difficulties are met when they are applied to complex structures. The main purpose of this paper is to give a review and discussion about the alternatives proposed in the literature that provide more elaborated intensity models and their impact on the performance of ASM.

Retrospective in silico evaluation of optimized preoperative planning for temporal bone surgery

Purpose Robot-assisted surgery at the temporal bone utilizing a flexible drilling unit would allow safer access to clinical targets such as the cochlea or the internal auditory canal by navigating along nonlinear trajectories. One key sub-step for clinical realization of such a procedure is automated preoperative surgical planning that incorporates both segmentation of risk structures and optimized trajectory planning. Methods We automatically segment risk structures using 3D U-Nets with probabilistic active shape models. For nonlinear trajectory planning, we adapt bidirectional rapidly exploring random trees on Bézier Splines followed by sequential convex optimization. Functional evaluation, assessing segmentation quality based on the subsequent trajectory planning step, shows the suitability of our novel segmentation approach for this two-step preoperative pipeline. Results Based on 24 data sets of the temporal bone, we perform a functional evaluation of preoperative surgical planning. Our experiments show that the automated segmentation provides safe and coherent surface models that can be used in collision detection during motion planning. The source code of the algorithms will be made publicly available. Conclusion Optimized trajectory planning based on shape regularized segmentation leads to safe access canals for temporal bone surgery. Functional evaluation shows the promising results for both 3D U-Net and Bézier Spline trajectories.

Augmented Active Shape Model Search – towards 3D Ultrasound-based Bone Surface Reconstruction

Patient-specific instrumentation in total knee arthroplasty (TKA), among other medical indications, requires a three-dimensional model of the bones involved. Currently, these are typically segmented from computer tomography images. Ultrasound offers a cheap as well as radiation-less imaging alternative, but suffers from a low signal-to-noise ratio as well as several other image artifacts. The interleaved partial active shape models search (IPASM) adapts a general physiological model to a set of images of a single patient, but suffers from false correspondences being soft tissue interfaces that are interpreted as bone surface. In order to counter this problem, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is applied to preprocess ultrasound images into bone confidence maps. This reduces the average surface distance error in an in-vivo evaluation by 0.7 to 1.3 mm.

Fake Biometric Detection for Face and Fingerprint

Face and Fingerprint acknowledgment is most popular and generally utilized as a biometric innovation as a result of their high ampleness and peculiarity. Besides the recognizing the user the present biometric systems have to face up with the new troubles like the spoofing attacks, like presenting a photo of the person to the camera. We study the anti-spoofing solutions for distinguishing between original and fake ones in both face and fingerprint in this paper. Generally, the face arrangement and portrayal that exhibits enhancements in coordinating execution over the more typical all-encompassing way to deal with face arrangement and depiction. Face detection, introduced in this paper, comprises the accompanying significant advances like facial features locating using Active Shape Models (ASM), Local Binary Pattern for feature extraction which is known for its texture classification, and Random Forest is used for classification. a fingerprint comprises of edges and valleys design otherwise called furrows. For Fingerprint detection, introduced in this paper includes the accompanying significant advances like Minutiae based local patches, SURF, and PHOG for feature extraction, and Random Forest is used for classification. The proposed methodologies are profoundly seriously contrasted and different as the investigation of the general picture nature of real biometric tests uncovers essential data for both face and fingerprints that might be productively used to segregate them from fake attributes.

KLASIFIKASI OSTEOARTHRITIS BERBASIS DUAL TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM DAN CONTRAST LIMITED ADAPTIVE HISTOGRAM EQUALIZATION (CLAHE) MENGGUNAKAN ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS

Citra adalah representasi dari informasi yang terkandung di dalamnya sehingga mata manusia dapat menganalisis dan menafsirkan informasi sesuai dengan tujuan yang diharapkan. Salah satu bentuk citra medis adalah citra x-ray. Penelitian ini mengidentifikasi gambar x-ray Osteoarthritis Lutut yang diambil pada berbagai tingkat keparahan, mulai dari KL-Grade 0 hingga KL-Grade 4. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode CLAHE dan DTCWT untuk proses preprosessing dan menggunakan metode Active Shape Model (ASM) untuk proses segmentasi, menggunakan 35 data pelatihan dan 200 data uji dari Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI). Pengujian citra uji dalam penelitian ini dengan mengekstraksi tekstur citra menggunakan metode GLCM dan segmentasi citra menggunakan ASM, sehingga proses scanning untuk penentuan titik-titik yang berfungsi untuk mengukur ketebalan cartilage. Hasil Ekstraksi tekstur memiliki tingkat akurasi klasifikasi KL-Grade 0 57,5%, KL-Grade 1 memiliki akurasi 33.3%, KL-Grade 2 37,5%, KL-Grade 3 37,5% dan KL-Grade 4 34,3 %. Sedangkan untuk pengukuran ketebalan tulang rawan memiliki akurasi klasifikasi untuk KL-Grade 0 sebesar 62.5%, kemudian KL-Grade 1 sebesar 44.4 %, sedangkan untuk KL-Grade 2 memiliki keberhasilan klasifikasi 60%, kemudian KL-Grade 3 memiliki klasifikasi berhasil dengan benar 70%, dan untuk KL-Grade 4 51.4%.

ACTIVE SHAPE MODEL PRECISION ANALYSIS OF VEHICLE DETECTION IN 3D LIDAR POINT CLOUDS

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> LiDAR systems are frequently used for driver assistance systems. The minimal distance to other objects and the exact pose of a vehicle is important for ego movement prediction. Therefore, in this work, we extract the poses of vehicles from LiDAR point clouds. To this end, we measure them with LiDAR, segment the vehicle points and extract the pose. Further, we analyze the influence of LiDAR resolutions on the pose extraction by active shape models (ASM) and by the center of bounding boxes combined with the principal component analysis (BC-PCA).</p>