Literature Reviews - Segmentation of Hand Bone for Bone Age Assessment - page 43

2.8 Summary
In this chapter, the techniques of histogram equation, hand bone segmentation and
image segmentation techniques have been reviewed. The pros and cons of those
techniques have been analyzed and compared. It is obvious that those techniques are
not sufficient to solve the hand bone segmentation problems. Hence, this motivates a
new technique that capable of segmenting the hand bone problem to be established
and implemented in the fully automated computer-aided skeletal age scoring system.
The proposed novel framework of hand bone segmentation is presented in Chap. 3 .
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