A new method for lumbar herniated inter-vertebral disc diagnosis based on image analysis of transverse sections

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 369-380

  Tsai, Ming Dar ^a   Jou, Shyan Bin ^a   Hsieh, Ming Shium ^b  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3D image reconstruction and surgical simulation; B spline radial approximation; Feature recognition; Herniated inter vertebral disc classification; Herniated inter vertebral disc management; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIAGNOSIS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMBER;

HERNIATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036891443     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(02)00033-2     Document Type: Article

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