An automated method to detect interstitial adipose tissue in thigh muscles for patients with osteoarthritis

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 6360-6363

  Prescott, Jeffrey W ^a   Priddy, Mike ^a   Best, Thomas M ^b   Pennell, Michael ^b   Swanson, Mark S ^a   Haq, Furqan ^b   Jackson, Rebecca D ^b   Gurcan, Metin N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCLE; TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATED METHODS; BIAS FIELD CORRECTIONS; CONNECTED REGION; MR IMAGES; T1-WEIGHTED; THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77950987108     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333260     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

1. Felson DT, Lawrence RC, Dieppe PA, et al, "Osteoarthritis: New Insights. Part 1: The Disease and Its Risk Factors," Ann Intern Med, vol.133, pp. 635-646, October 17. 2000.
2. Buckwalter JA, Einhorn TA, Simon SR, and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons., Orthopaedic Basic Science Biology and Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System. Rosemont, IL: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2000.
3. Steultjens MP, Dekker J, van Baar ME, Oostendorp RA, Bijlsma JW, "Muscle strength, pain and disability in patients with osteoarthritis. " Clin Rehabil. 2001 Jun;15(3):331-341
4. Baker KR, Xu L, Zhang Y, Nevitt M, Niu J, Aliabadi P, Yu W, and Felson D, "Quadriceps weakness and its relationship to tibiofemoral and patellafemoral knee osteoarthritis in Chinese," Arthritis Rheum, vol.50, pp. 1815-1821, 2004.
5. O'Reilly SC, Jones A, Muir KR, Doherty M, "Quadriceps weakness in knee osteoarthritis: the effect on pain and disability." Ann Rheum Dis 1998;57;588-594.
6. Overend TJ, Cunningham DA, Paterson DH, and Lefcoe MS, "Thigh composition in young and elderly men determined by computed tomography." Clin Physiol 12: 629-640, 1992.
7. Rice CL, Cunningham DA, Paterson DH, and Lefcoe MS, "Arm and leg composition determined by computed tomography in young and elderly men." Clin Physiol 9: 207-220, 1989.
8. Goodpaster BH, Theriault R, Watkins SC, Kelley DE, "Intramuscular lipid content is increased in obesity and decreased by weight loss." Metabolism 49: 467-472, 2000.
9. Klein CS, Rice CL, Marsh GD, "Normalized force, activation, and coactivation in the arm muscles of young and old men." J.Appl.Physiol., 2001, 91, 3, 1341-1349.
10. Manek NJ, Hart D, Spector TD, MacGregor AJ, "The Association of Body Mass Index and Osteoarthritis of the Knee Joint." Arthritis and Rheumatism, Vol.48, No.4, April 2003, pp 1024-1029.
11. Marden FA, Connoly AM, Siegel MJ, Rubin DA, "Compositional analysis of muscle in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy using MR imaging." Skeletal Radiol (2005) 34:140-148.
12. Sled JG, Zijdenbox AP, Evans AC, "A nonparametric method for automatic correction of intensity nonuniformity in MRI data." IEEE Trans. Med. Imag., 17(1): 87-97, Feb 1998.
13. Madabhushi A and Udupa JK, "Interplay Between Intensity Standardization and Inhomogeneity Correction in MR Image Processing." IEEE Trans Med Img, vol.24, no.5, May 2005.
14. Prescott JW, Pennell M, Best TM, Swanson MS, Haq F, Jackson R, Gurcan MN, "An Automated Method to Segment the Femur for Osteoarthritis Research." EMBC 2009. Minneapolis, MN. Sept. 2009.
15. Gonzalez RC, Woods RE,. Digital Image Processing using Matlab, Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2003.
16. Kellgren J, Lawrence J, "Radiological assessment of osteoarthritis." Ann Rheum Dis 1957; 16:494-501.