Interobserver reproducibility of quantitative cartilage measurements: Comparison of B-spline snakes and manual segmentation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1033-1042

  Stammberger, Tobias ^a,b   Eckstein, Felix ^c   Michaelis, Markus ^a   Englmeier, Karl Hans ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; B spline snakes; Cartilage thickness; Deformable models; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; THICKNESS;

SERPENTES;

EID: 0032824770     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(99)00040-5     Document Type: Article

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