Validation and reference values of automated bone age determination for four ethnicities

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1425-1432

  Thodberg, Hans Henrik ^a   Sävendahl, Lars ^b  

^a Visiana   (Denmark)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Automated bone age; Greulich Pyle; Racial differences; Rater variability; Reference values

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUTOMATION; BONE AGE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77957658511     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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