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Clinical assessment of skeletal age is a frequent, but yet difficult and time-consuming task. Automatic methods which estimate the skeletal age from a hand radiogram are currently being studied. This work presents a method to segment each bone complex in the radiogram, using a modified active contour approach. Each bone is modelled by an independent contour, while neighbouring contours are coupled by an elastic force. The optimization of the contour is done using a genetic algorithm. Experimental results, carried out on a portion of the whole radiogram, show that coupling of deformable contours with genetic optimization allows to obtain an accurate segmentation.
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Ballerini, L., Bocchi, L. (2003). Multiple Genetic Snakes for Bone Segmentation. In: Cagnoni, S., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36605-9_32
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