Computer-aided diagnosis of lumbar disc pathology from clinical lower spine MRI

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 287-293

  Alomari, Raja S ^a   Corso, Jason J ^a   Chaudhary, Vipin ^a   Dhillon, Gurmeet ^b  

^a University at Buffalo ^*  (United States)

^b Proscan Imaging of Buffalo   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Gibbs distribution; Lumbar intervertebral disc; MRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISKITIS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR DISK HERNIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

EID: 77953615579     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-009-0396-9     Document Type: Article

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