Computer-aided diagnosis of knee-joint disorders via vibroarthrographic signal analysis: A review

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-224

  Wu, Yunfeng ^a   Krishnan, Sridhar ^a   Rangayyan, Rangaraj M ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Auscultation; Entropy; Form factor; Knee joint; Kurtosis; Matching pursuit; Osteoarthritis; Parzen window; Pattern classification; Probability density function; Segmentation; Skewness; Time frequency analysis; Vibration arthrometry; Vibroarthrography; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; ENTROPY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGES; AUSCULTATION; FORM FACTORS; KNEE JOINT; KURTOSIS; MATCHING PURSUIT; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PARZEN WINDOWS; SKEWNESS; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; VIBRATION ARTHROMETRY; VIBROARTHROGRAPHY; WAVELETS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ARTHROMETRY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; JOINT FUNCTION; KNEE; KNEE ARTHROGRAPHY; KNEE ARTHROSCOPY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATELLA CHONDROMALACIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VIBROARTHROGRAPHY; X RAY;

EID: 78650108478     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v38.i2.60     Document Type: Review

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