Automatic assessment of the knee alignment angle on full-limb radiographs

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 236-240

  Fakhrai, Negar ^a   Widhalm, Peter ^b   Chiari, Catharina ^a   Weber, Michael ^a   Langs, Georg ^c   Donner, René ^b,d   Ringl, Helmut ^a   Jantsch, Marion ^a   Peloschek, Philipp ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Automatic; Computer aided diagnosis; Full limb radiographs; Knee; Knee alignment; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ANGLE; ALIGNMENT PATTERNS; AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CROSS VALIDATION; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; MEAN ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCES; MEAN AGES; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; USER INTERACTION;

ALIGNMENT; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARDS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; KNEE ALIGNMENT ANGLE; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINT DEFORMITIES, ACQUIRED; LEG; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77950030878     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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