Documentation/4.8/Modules/ForegroundMasking

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Introduction and Acknowledgements

This work is part of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149. Information on NA-MIC can be obtained from the NA-MIC website. Author: Hans Johnson, UIOWA Contact: Hans Johnson, <email>(hans-johnson@uiowa.edu</email>

University of Iowa   Surgical Planning Laboratory

Module Description

This program is used to create a mask over the most prominant forground region in an image. This is accomplished via a combination of otsu thresholding and a closing operation.

Use Cases

Most frequently used for these scenarios:

• Use Case 1: Creating a rough brain mask.
• Use Case 2:

Tutorials

Links to tutorials that use this module

Panels and their use

Parameters:

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Similar Modules

• Point to other modules that have similar functionality

References

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