A modeling approach for burn scar assessment using natural features and elastic property

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1325-1329

  Zhang, Yong ^a   Goldgof, Dmitry B ^a   Sarkar, Sudeep ^a   Tsap, Leonid V ^b  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn scar; Elastic property; Finite element; Natural feature; Physical model; Regularization

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIGMENTS; TISSUE;

BURN SCAR; ELASTIC PROPERTY; NATURAL FEATURES; PHYSICAL MODELS; REGULARIZATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BURN; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCAR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BURNS; CICATRIX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN;

EID: 6344258393     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.834625     Document Type: Article

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