# Implementing this research paper to automate CBCT bone segmentation

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/implementing-this-research-paper-to-automate-cbct-bone-segmentation/1893>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** segmentation\
**Created:** [January 22, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/implementing-this-research-paper-to-automate-cbct-bone-segmentation/1893 "2018-01-22T05:08:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![George\_Chao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@George\_Chao](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/George_Chao)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/implementing-this-research-paper-to-automate-cbct-bone-segmentation/1893/1 "2018-01-22T05:08:15Z")

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Operating system: Windows/Linux  
Slicer version:4.9

hi guys, this is way over my head, can expert look into this paper and see if this can be made into a module?

Thanks

Automated segmentation of dental CBCT image with prior-guided sequential random forests([https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698124/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4698124/))

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/implementing-this-research-paper-to-automate-cbct-bone-segmentation/1893/2 "2018-01-22T13:14:31Z")

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If the authors make the implementation available and the implementation relies on freely available toolkits (e.g. ITK) then making a Slicer module can be pretty straightforward. If all you have is the paper then it can be hard to reduce it to practice.