Application of a semiautomated contour segmentation tool to identify the intervertebral nucleus pulposus in MR images

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1640-1644

  Bechara, B P ^a   Leckie, S K ^a   Bowman, B W ^a   Davies, C E ^a   Woods, B I ^a   Kanal, E ^a   Sowa, Gwendolyn A ^a   Kang, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; SEMIAUTOMATED CONTOUR SEGMENTATION TOOL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77958588103     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2162     Document Type: Article

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