Computer Aided Evaluation of Ankylosing Spondylitis Using High-Resolution CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1252-1267

  Tan, Sovira ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^b   Ward, Michael M ^a   Yao, Lawrence ^b   Summers, Ronald M ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Level sets on nonplanar manifolds; multiscale vertebra segmentation; ridgelines crestlines; semi synthetic digital phantoms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 54449087678     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.920612     Document Type: Article

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