Desiccation diagnosis in lumbar discs from clinical mri with a probabilistic model

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 546-549

  Alomari, Raja S ^a   Corso, Jason J ^a   Chaudhary, Vipin ^a   Dhillon, Gurmeet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Proscan Imaging Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Desiccation diagnosis; Lumbar discs; MRI

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; CROSS VALIDATION; DESICCATION DIAGNOSIS; GIBBS DISTRIBUTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; LOWER BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISC; LUMBAR DISCS; LUMBAR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; MRI; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MACROS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 70449339838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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