Segmentation of regions of interest and post-segmentation edge location improvement in computer-aided bone age assessment

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-123

  Gertych, Arkadiusz ^a   Piȩtka, Ewa ^b   Liu, Brent J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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EID: 34247582308     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-006-0056-4     Document Type: Article

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