  In this contribution, we used the GrowCut segmentation algorithm publicly
available in three-dimensional Slicer for three-dimensional segmentation of
vertebral bodies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the
GrowCut method has been studied for the usage of vertebral body segmentation.
In brief, we found that the GrowCut segmentation times were consistently less
than the manual segmentation times. Hence, GrowCut provides an alternative to a
manual slice-by-slice segmentation process.
