Automated segmentation for patella from lateral knee X-ray images

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 3553-3556

  Chen, H C ^a   Wu, C H ^a   Lin, C J ^b   Liu, Y H ^c   Sun, Y N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC PROCEDURES; BIOMECHANICAL STUDIES; CLINICAL EVALUATION; GEOMETRIC TRANSFORM; SEGMENTATION METHODS; X-RAY IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77951010548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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