Automatic detection of lumbar anatomy in ultrasound images of human subjects

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2248-2256

  Tran, Denis ^a   Rohling, Robert N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human subjects; lumbar epidurals; phase symmetry; ridge detection; spatial compounding; template matching

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SUBJECTS; LUMBAR EPIDURALS; PHASE SYMMETRY; RIDGE DETECTION; SPATIAL COMPOUNDING;

ALGORITHMS; FRUITS; IMAGE QUALITY; NEEDLES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; TEMPLATE MATCHING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS;

IMAGE MATCHING;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR SPINE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; SPINE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGAMENTUM FLAVUM; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 77955880873     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2048709     Document Type: Article

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