Quantitative analysis of spinal curvature in 3D: Application to CT images of normal spine

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1895-1908

  Vrtovec, Tomaž ^a   Likar, Boštjan ^a   Pernuš, Franjo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS;

ANATOMY; GEOMETRIC CURVATURE (GC); SPINAL CURVATURE; VERTEBRA;

BONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCOLIOSIS; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCOLIOSIS; SOFTWARE; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42449132267     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/7/006     Document Type: Article

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