Automatic detection of rib contours in chest radiographs [electronic resource] : an application of image processing techniques in medical diagnosis / Harry Wechsler.

1.1 Statement of the Problem This work describes a new and effective computer algorithm for detecting the contours of ribs in ehest radiographs. The problem, which is common to both the research areas of Machine Vision and Biomedical Computing, is to extract graphical information, such as that repre...

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