The use of active shape models for making thickness measurements of articular cartilage from MR images

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 943-952

  Solloway, Stuart ^a   Hutchinson, Charles E ^a   Waterton, John C ^b   Taylor, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active shape models; Cartilage thickness; Magnetic resonance; Model based segmentation

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THICKNESS GAGES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS; CARTILAGE THICKNESS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MODEL-BASED SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0030925244     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910370620     Document Type: Article

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