Automatic quantification of changes in bone in serial MR images of joints

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1617-1626

  Leung, Kelvin K ^a   Holden, Mark ^b   Saeed, Nadeem ^c   Brooks, Keith J ^c   Buckton, Jacky B ^c   Williams, Ann A ^c   Campbell, Simon P ^c   Changani, Kumar ^c   Reid, David G ^c   Zhao, Yong ^d   Wilde, Mike ^d   Rueckert, Daniel ^e   Hajnal, Joseph V ^e   Hill, Derek L G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Histology; Image analysis; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DISEASES; DRUG THERAPY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BONE LESIONS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA);

BONE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEWIS RAT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANKLE JOINT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33845585030     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.884216     Document Type: Article

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