Alpha-gamma equalization-enhanced hand radiographic image segmentation scheme

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Lin, Hsiu Hsia ^a   Shu, San Ging ^b,c   Kuo, Shiau Wei ^a   Wang, Chien Hsuan ^a   Chan, Ya Ping ^a   Yu, Shyr Shen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

gamma equalization; bone age; chronological age; region of interest; segmentation; two means clustering

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ERRORS; BONE AGE; BONE AGE ASSESSMENT; BONY TISSUE; CHRONOLOGICAL AGE; CLUSTERING SCHEME; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; GRADIENT VECTOR FLOW SNAKES; INITIAL SEGMENTATION; INTENSITY INFORMATION; MISCLASSIFICATION ERROR; MODIFIED HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; NONUNIFORMITY; PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES; REGION OF INTEREST; RELATIVE LOCATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; SOFT TISSUE; TWO-MEANS CLUSTERING; WATERSHED METHODS;

BONE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; RADIOLOGY; RATING; TISSUE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77956370151     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3242852     Document Type: Article

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