Teeth Segmentation from a given X-ray image

from a given dental X-ray image, how to seperate the upper and lower jaws? Additionally, how to segment each tooth?

[Image Analyst]

How about posting an image?

[christy tom]

xray image to be segmented...

Answer 1

[Rushikesh Tade]

Try this code ,

clc;
clear all;
close all;

image_name='10.gif.jpg'; %%Change this if you have diff name

teeth_image=imread(image_name);
subplot(1,2,1)
imshow(teeth_image)
grayscale_teeth=rgb2gray(teeth_image);

segmented_teeth=im2bw(grayscale_teeth,0.4);
subplot(1,2,2)
imshow(segmented_teeth);