MDU-Net: A Convolutional Network for Clavicle and Rib Segmentation from a Chest Radiograph

Automatic bone segmentation from a chest radiograph is an important and challenging task in medical image analysis. However, a chest radiograph contains numerous artifacts and tissue shadows, such as trachea, blood vessels, and lung veins, which limit the accuracy of traditional segmentation methods...

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Main Authors: Wenjing Wang, Hongwei Feng, Qirong Bu, Lei Cui, Yilin Xie, Aoqi Zhang, Jun Feng, Zhaohui Zhu, Zhongyuanlong Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2785464