Survey on Segmentation Techniques for Spinal Cord Images

Abstract

- Medical imaging is a technique which is used to expose the interior part of the body, to diagnose the diseases and to treat them as well. Different modalities are used to process the medical images. It helps the human specialists to make diagnosis ailments. In this paper, we surveyed segmentation on the spinal cord images using different techniques such as Data mining, Support vector machine, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithm which are applied to find the disorders and syndromes affected in the spinal cord system. As a result, we have gained knowledge in an identified disarrays and ailments affected in lumbar vertebra, thoracolumbar vertebra and spinal canal. Finally how the Disc Similarity Index values are generated in each method is also analysed.