An artifacts removal post-processing for epiphyseal region-of-interest (EROI) localization in automated bone age assessment (BAA)

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chai, Hum Y ^a   Wee, Lai K ^a,b   Swee, Tan T ^a   Salleh, Sh Hussain ^a   Chea, Lim Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SEGMENTATION; AGE GROUPS; ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; BONE AGE ASSESSMENT; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; POST PROCESSING; POSTPROCESSING ALGORITHMS; PRE-PROCESSING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGION OF INTEREST; SEGMENTED IMAGES; TEXTURE FEATURES;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BONE; DIFFUSION; OPTICAL ANISOTROPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; RATING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSION; EPIPHYSIS; HAND; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION; EPIPHYSES; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 80055091788     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-10-87     Document Type: Article

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