Knowledge-based femur detection in conventional radiographs of the pelvis

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 535-544

  Pilgram, Roland ^a   Walch, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active shape modeling; Femur detection; Femur segmentation; Hough lines; Template initialization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; CORRELATION METHODS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ACTIVE SHAPE MODELING; FEMUR DETECTION; FEMUR SEGMENTATION; HOUGH LINES; TEMPLATE INITIALIZATION;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; FEMUR; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; FEMUR; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 42749094937     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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