Anatomically corresponded regional analysis of cartilage in asymptomatic and osteoarthritic knees by statistical shape modelling of the bone

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1541-1559

  Williams, Tomos G ^a   Holmes, Andrew P ^b   Waterton, John C ^a,b   MacIewicz, Rose A ^b   Hutchinson, Charles E ^a   Moots, Robert J ^c   Nash, Anthony F P ^b   Taylor, Chris J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; osteoarthritis; quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); statistical models

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE APPEARANCE MODELS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BONE SURFACE; CARTILAGE SURFACES; CARTILAGE THICKNESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ANALYSIS; FOCAL REGIONS; LOAD-BEARING; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; METHODS OF ANALYSIS; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MR IMAGES; MULTI-VENDOR; QUANTITATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCES; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; STATISTICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODEL; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODELLING; THICKNESS LOSS; TREATMENT MONITORING;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BONE; CARTILAGE; COMPUTER VISION; EXPERIMENTS; LIGAMENTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGIONAL PLANNING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYALINE CARTILAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNEE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LEG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALINE CARTILAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KNEE; LEG BONES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77955375530     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2047653     Document Type: Article

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