Tissue characterization from X-ray images

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 336-342

  Bocchi, Leonardo ^a   Coppini, Giuseppe ^b   De Dominicis, Raffaella ^a   Valli, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Co occurrence matrices; Computer vision; Feed forward networks; Kohonen self organizing map; Neural networks; Texture analysis; X Ray images

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTER VISION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS; IMAGE QUALITY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COOCCURRENCE MATRICES; KOHONEN SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BONE AND BONES; BONE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031171115     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(96)00078-1     Document Type: Article

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