Adoption of Geometric Properties to Detect Herniated Spinal Disc of Human

Abstract

Image analysis and processing is useful in the medical images field, especially with the use of magnetic resonance images (MRI). In this research, MRI of the human’s spine was analyzed and processed to identify and detect the herniated spinal Disc, or the probability of occurrence in the future. Lumbar and sacrum regions have been applied by the system. The system composed from three phases, the first is to identify the lumbar and sacrum regions, the second phase is the measuring of geometric properties, and finally the third phase is to detect the presence or the probability of herniated to occur in the future.