Lumbar spine visualisation based on kinematic analysis from videofluoroscopic imaging

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 171-179

  Zheng, Y ^a   Nixon, M S ^a   Allen, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital videofluoroscopy; Hough transform; Low back pain; Phase congruency; Visualisation and animation

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DIAGNOSIS; KINEMATICS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIGITAL VIDEOFLOUROSCOPY; SPINAL KINEMATICS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KINEMATICS; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE MOBILITY;

EID: 0037392442     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(02)00182-0     Document Type: Article

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