Total variation based 3D skull segmentation

Segmentation is widely used for determining tumor and other lesions and classifying tissues for various analysis purposes in medical images. However, being an ill-posed problem, there is no single segmentation method which can perform successfully for all kind of data. In this study, a novel total variation (TV) based skull segmentation method is proposed. Skull segmentation performance of the proposed method is shown using computed tomography (CT) images.