Intervertebral Disc Segmentation and Volumetric Reconstruction From Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography Imaging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2748-2751

  Wong, Alexander ^a   Mishra, Akshaya ^a   Fieguth, Paul ^a   Clausi, David A ^a   Yates, Justin ^a   Callaghan, Jack P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilateral; computed tomography (CT); intervertebral disc; Mumford Shah; scale space; segmentation; volumetric reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SWINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74049110572     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2027225     Document Type: Article

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