Automatic detection of radiation fields in digital radiographic images

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 149-168

  Luo, Jiebo ^a   Senn, Robert A ^a  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EDGE DETECTION; FUZZY SETS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTERIZED RADIOGRAPHY (CR) IMAGING; FUZZY FIGURE-OF-MERIT; RADIATION FIELD RECOGNITION; TREE-STRUCTURED HYPOTHESIS TESTS;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033076669     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001499000094     Document Type: Article

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