Atlas-based segmentation of degenerated lumbar intervertebral discs from MR images of the spine

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2225-2231

  Michopoulou, Sofia K ^a   Costaridou, Lena ^b   Panagiotopoulos, Elias ^b   Speller, Robert ^a   Panayiotakis, George ^b   Todd Pokropek, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Disc degeneration; Image segmentation; Intervertebral discs; MRI

Indexed keywords

ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATION; BACK PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPUTER ASSISTED; COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM; DISC DEGENERATION; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; GRAY-LEVEL VALUES; INTER-VERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; LUMBAR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; MR IMAGES; MRI; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SEGMENTED DATA; SEMI-AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; SMOOTHNESS CONSTRAINTS; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TIME EFFICIENCIES;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; ATLAS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; PRODUCTIVITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SPINE;

EID: 69549138432     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2019765     Document Type: Article

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