Automatic quantification of joint space narrowing and erosions in rheumatoid arthritis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 151-164

  Langs, Georg ^a,b,c   Peloschek, Philipp ^b,c   Bischof, Horst ^b,d   Kainberger, Franz ^b,c  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^b INRIA SACLAY   (France)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active contours; Active shape models (ASMs); Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); Radiology; Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EROSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; METAL WORKING SHAPERS; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; TEXTURES;

A COEFFICIENTS; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS (ASMS); AUTOMATIC QUANTIFICATIONS; BONE DESTRUCTIONS; CHRONIC DISEASES; CLINICAL EXPERTS; CLINICAL TRIALS; EFFICIENT MONITORING; EROSION DETECTIONS; IMAGE INTERPRETATIONS; JOINT SPACE NARROWING; JOINT SPACE WIDTHS; LOCAL LINEAR MAPPINGS; LOCAL TEXTURES; MULTICENTER CLINICAL TRIALS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RADIOGRAPHIC CHANGES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; REMOTE ANALYSES; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA); SCORING METHODS; STATISTICAL MODELS; TEXTURE FEATURES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; JOINT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BONE AND BONES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HAND; HUMANS; JOINTS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 58049206427     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.2004401     Document Type: Article

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