Morphological Segmentation for Identifying Backbone Area

Abstract

Segmentation in images of abdominal CT scan is an important step in the processing and interpretation of medical images. This is not easy, because the organs are close together and the color intensity is similar. Various methods have been developed, but the problem of locating the position of the backbone is still difficult to solve. The purpose of this study is to develop a segmentation method to determine the location of the backbone using a morphological method with a binarization approach. Testing of 11 CT Scan images shows that the method developed can determine the area and position of the backbone. Thus, it can be concluded that the method of backbone segmentation using a morphological method with a binary approach is successfully developed so that it can be applied to the advanced analysis process.