Abstract
AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF LUMBAR SPINE L1-L5 FOR DETECTION OF OSTEOPOROSIS: REVIEW
Kavita Avinash Patil*, K. V. Mahendra Prashanth and Dr. A. Ramalingaiah
ABSTRACT
Osteoporosis is a pathological-disease that erodes the density and quality of bone which increases the risk of fractures and life menacing impediments. It approximately affects larger than 200-million people world-wide which is common in aging-women. The review is on automatically localizing and detection of lumbar-vertebrae using segmentation technique, which is challenging in medical-field. The elementary challenge connected with the above-declared mission is of the recurring structure of vertebral, restraint infield-view, the existence of pathology in the spine (surgical- implant), and reduction of contrast in imaging-modality of aimed structure. So, the dynamic method is adapted that is a Deep learning model used to predict a fully-automatic approach for identification and location of individual lumbar-vertebrae based on appropriate information of image with better dice-coefficient and accuracy. Even a statistical Multi vertebral method is chosen for localizing vertebrae and by iterating the Expectation-Maximization mode is used for registration of statistical Multi vertebral scheme to find the edge-points of an image to attain reliable and fast segmentation of the vertebral-bodies.
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