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Individual Tooth Image Segmentation by Watershed Algorithm

워터쉐드 기법을 이용한 개별적 치아 영역 자동 검출

  • 이성택 (건국대 의학공학부) ;
  • 김경섭 (건국대 의료생명대 의학공학부, 건국대 의공학실용기술연구소) ;
  • 윤태호 (건국대 의학공학부)
  • Published : 2010.01.01
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Abstract

In this study, we propose a novel method to segment an individual tooth region in a true color image. The difference of the intensity in RGB is initially extracted and subsequent morphological reconstruction is applied to minimize the spurious segmentation regions. Multiple seeds in the tooth regions are chosen by searching regional minima and a Sobel-mask edge operations is performed to apply MCWA(Marker-Controlled Watershed Algorithm). As the results of applying MCWA transform for our proposed tooth segmentation algorithm, the individual tooth region can be resolved in a CCD tooth color image.

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