Adaptive Preprocessing of X-ray Hand Images

In this paper an algorithm based on gradient methods and binarization threshold selection is proposed. The finger bones contourisation, the finger joints localization, the fingers segmentation and the noise elimination are the considered tasks. The introduced method gives promising results.

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