An effective classification and numbering system for dental bitewing radiographs using teeth region and contour information

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1380-1392

  Lin, P L ^a   Lai, Y H ^b   Huang, P W ^b  

^a PROVIDENCE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive contrast stretching; Dental bitewing radiograph; Homogeneity measurement; Homomorphic filter; Sequence alignment; Teeth classification; Teeth numbering

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY RATE; ADAPTIVE CONTRAST STRETCHING; CONTOUR EXTRACTION; CONTOUR INFORMATION; CONTRAST STRETCHING; CROWN SIZE; DETECTION ALGORITHM; HOMOMORPHIC FILTER; HOMOMORPHIC FILTERING; INTEGRAL PROJECTIONS; ITERATIVE THRESHOLDING; LINEAR SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMBERING SCHEME; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS;

ALIGNMENT; BIOINFORMATICS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; NUMBERING SYSTEMS; RADIOGRAPHY;

DENTISTRY;

EID: 74449092668     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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