Computing neck-shaft angle of femur for X-ray fracture detection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2756, Issue , 2003, Pages 82-89

  Tian, Tai Peng ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Leow, Wee Kheng ^a   Hsu, Wynne ^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

FRACTURE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FRACTURE DETECTION; NECK SHAFT ANGLES; OLDER PEOPLE; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; TEST IMAGES; X-RAY IMAGE;

BONE;

EID: 21144435923     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45179-2_11     Document Type: Article

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