Automatic spinal disease diagnoses assisted by 3D unaligned transverse CT slices

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 307-319

  Tsai, Ming Dar ^a   Yeh, Yi Der ^a   Hsieh, Ming Shium ^b   Tsai, Chiung Hsin ^c  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Feature recognition; Image analysis; Spinal disease diagnosis; Transverse unaligned slice

Indexed keywords

DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; SPINAL DISEASES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE MALFORMATION; VERTEBRA BODY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4043062929     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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