Automatic bone age assessment for young children from newborn to 7-year-old using carpal bones

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 31, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 299-310

  Zhang, Aifeng ^a   Gertych, Arkadiusz ^a   Liu, Brent J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Bone age assessment; Canny edge detection; Carpal bone segmentation; Carpal region of interest; Computer aided diagnosis; Feature extraction; Fuzzy classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOLOGY; TISSUE; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BONE AGE ASSESSMENT; CANNY EDGE DETECTION; CARPAL BONE SEGMENTATION; CARPAL REGION OF INTEREST;

BONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE AGE; CARPAL BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUZZY SYSTEM; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ANISOTROPY; CALIFORNIA; CARPAL BONES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 34247110847     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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