Bone age assessment of children using a digital hand atlas

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 31, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 322-331

  Gertych, Arkadiusz ^a   Zhang, Aifeng ^a   Sayre, James ^a,b   Pospiech Kurkowska, Sylwia ^c   Huang, H K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bone age assessment of children; Computer aided diagnosis; Digital hand atlas; Feature extraction; Fuzzy logic

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY LOGIC;

BONE AGE ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL HAND ATLAS; FUZZY CLASSIFIERS; PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGISTS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BONE AGE; CARPAL BONE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUZZY SYSTEM; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HAND BONES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247174875     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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