Automated Segmentation of Acetabulum and Femoral Head from 3-D CT Images

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 329-343

  Zoroofi, Reza A ^a,b   Sato, Yoshinobu ^c   Sasama, Toshihiko ^c   Nishii, Takashi ^c   Sugano, Nobuhiko ^c   Yonenobu, Kazuo ^c   Yoshikawa, Hideki ^c   Ochi, Takahiro ^c   Tamura, Shinichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bone segmentation; Boundary refinement; Computed tomography (CT); Hessian filter; Image enhancement; Joint space detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BONE; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MEDICAL IMAGING;

BONE SEGMENTATION; BOUNDARY REFINEMENT; HESSIAN FILTERS; JOINT SPACE DETECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACETABULUM; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMUR HEAD; HIP; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACETABULUM; ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMUR HEAD; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 1442288644     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2003.813791     Document Type: Article

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