Integrating edge detection and thresholding approaches to segmenting femora and patellae from magnetic resonance images

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Lee, Jiann Shu ^a   Chung, Yi Nung ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^b DA YEH UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anterior knee pain; FLoG; MRI; Onion growing; Wavelet transforms enhancement

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ALGORITHMS; BONE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ANTERIOR KNEE PAIN (AKP); COMPUTERIZED KNEE JOINT ANALYSIS; OION-GROWING ALGORITHM; WAVELET ENHANCEMENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMUR; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

EID: 16444366229     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237205000020     Document Type: Review

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