Automatic localization of craniofacial landmarks using multi-layer perceptron as a function approximator

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 544-550

  El Feghi, I ^a   Sid Ahmed, M A ^a   Ahmadi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cephalometric; Cephalometric evaluation; Craniofacial; MLP; X ray image

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANOMALIES; AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATION; ORTHODONTISTS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 32844459995     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.09.019     Document Type: Article

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