Automating measurement of subtle changes in articular cartilage from MRI of the knee by combining 3D image registration and segmentation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4322, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 431-439

  Lynch, J A ^a   Zaim, S ^a   Zhao, J ^a   Peterfy, C G ^a   Genant, H K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Image registration; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mutual information; Osteoarthritis; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PATTERN MATCHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CARTILAGE LESIONS; IMAGE REGISTRATION;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0034853087     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.431115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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