Automatic Detection of Rib Borders in Chest Radiographs

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 525-536

  Yue, Zhanjun ^a   Goshtasby, Ardeshir ^a   Ackerman, Laurens V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; HOUGH TRANSFORM; PARABOLIC SEGMENTS; POSTEROANTERIOR; RIB BORDERS; THORACIC CAGE BOUNDARY;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029378346     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.414618     Document Type: Article

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