Detecting femur fractures by texture analysis of trabeculae

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 730-733

  Yap, Dennis Wen Hsiang ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Leow, Wee Kheng ^a   Howe, Tet Sen ^b   Png, Meng Ai ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSIONS; FRACTURE DETECTION; SHAFT AXIS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

BONE; COMPUTER VISION; FRACTURE; RADIOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXTURES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 10044266521     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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