An automatic diagnosis method for the knee meniscus tears in MR images

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 1208-1216

  Köse, Cemal ^a   Gençalioǧlu, Okyay ^a   Şevik, Uǧur ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Automatic diagnosis; Bone Segmentation; Knee meniscus location; Medical image processing; Meniscus tears; Statistical image processing

Indexed keywords

BONE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIAGNOSIS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; STATISTICS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS; BONE SEGMENTATION; KNEE MENISCUS LOCATION; MENISCUS TEARS; STATISTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 56349154625     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.11.036     Document Type: Article

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