Landmarking and Feature Localization in Spine X-rays

Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the very helpful ideas, examples, criticism, and code that is continuing to be provided by Dr. Hemant Tagare of Yale University in the area of using deformable templates to find structures in x-ray images. We also acknowledge the work of Matthew Freedman, M.D. and Dr. Ben Lo of Georgetown University in providing significant biomedical and quantitative data from 600 digitized x-ray images for the continuing research into developing effective image processing techniques for automated image analysis for biomedical applications. Finally, we are grateful to David Blum and Joe Fitzgerald of the National Library of Medicine Audiovisual Program Development Branch for the anatomical artwork used in Figure 3.

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