Skeletal growth estimation using radiographie image processing and analysis

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 292-297

  Mahmoodi, Sasan ^a   Sharif, Bayan S ^a   Graeme Chester, E ^a   Owen, John P ^a   Lee, Richard ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asm segmentation; Bayesian estimation; Feature extraction; Skeletal growth assessment

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GROWTH KINETICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PEDIATRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ESTIMATION; HIERARCHICAL INFERENCES; PHALANX BONES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE PROCESSING; SKELETAL GROWTH ESTIMATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; BAYES THEOREM; BONE AND BONES; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0034351691     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4233.897061     Document Type: Article

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