Image Segmentation Techniques and its applications for Knee Joints: a Survey
Meenaz H. Shaikh, Shraddha Panbude, Anuradha Rajiv Joshi · IOSR Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering · 2014
Knee joint is the largest anatomical joint within the human body which facilitates the ease of movement from one place to another.Osteoarthritis (OA), a common debilitating disease afflicting over 71 million people globally, is poorly understood and a treatment to slow, halt, or reverse the disease progression remains elusive.It is characterized by the degeneration of the articular cartilage in joints.Image segmentation is the fundamental step to analyze images and extract data from them.Segmentation process also helps to find region of interest in a particular image.This paper addresses various image segmentation techniques, evaluating them and presents the characteristics related to those techniques.Also the segmentation of knee joint and future work are mentioned.