Normalized cuts for spinal MRI segmentation

Segmentation of bony structures plays an important role in image-guided surgery of the spine. In this paper we give a first approach to the segmentation of vertebral bodies from 2D sagittal MR images of the spine using the normalized cuts (Ncut) segmentation technique [1], and the Nystrom approximation method [2].

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