Automatic determination of the imaging plane in lumbar MRI

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Masaki, Tsurumaki ^a   Lee, Yongbum ^b   Tsai, Du Yih ^b   Sekiya, Masaru ^b   Kazama, Kiyoko ^a  

^a Nakajo Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic setting; Image recognition; Lumbar; MRI

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; EDGE DETECTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC SETTING; IMAGE RECOGNITION; IMAGING PLANE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK (ID); LUMBAR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745179206     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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