Computerized segmentation and diagnostics of whole-body bone scintigrams

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 531-541

  Šajn, Luka ^a   Kononenko, Igor ^a   Milčinski, Metka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Automatic segmentation; Image processing; Machine learning; Whole body bone scan

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATHOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; WHOLE-BODY BONE SCAN;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; ILEUM; IMAGE PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIC BONE; RIB; SPINE; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; GAMMA CAMERAS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SLOVENIA; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 34548047683     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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