An automated method to segment the femur for osteoarthritis research

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 6364-6367

  Prescott, Jeffrey W ^a   Pennell, Michael ^b   Best, Thomas M ^b   Swanson, Mark S ^a   Haq, Furqan ^b   Jackson, Rebecca ^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

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ANATOMICAL CONSTRAINT; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL AREAS; IMAGING BIOMARKERS; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; SIMILARITY INDICES;

BONE;

EID: 77951001607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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