Automatic extraction of femur contours from hip x-ray images

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

Volumn 3765 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 200-209

  Chen, Ying ^a   Ee, Xianhe ^a   Leow, Wee Kheng ^a   Howe, Tet Sen ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CONTOUR ALGORITHMS; FEMUR; FEMUR CONTOURS; X-RAY IMAGES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33646674034     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11569541_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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