Spinal Cord Axon Segmentation

An automatic method for accurately segmenting MRI images of axons would reduce the manpower required for axon and myelin research. We implement active contours, which is reported to successfully identify axons in electron micrographs, and evaluate its performance on MRI images. We also show that a simple method for estimating the error of a segmentation can achieve similar results to a ground truth error function when applied to a parameter optimisation problem