Semiautomatic detection of scoliotic rib borders from posteroanterior chest radiographs

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 909-919

  Plourde, Frédéric ^a,b   Cheriet, Farida ^a,b   Dansereau, Jean ^a,b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chest radiographs; edge following; oriented filtering; perceptual parallelism; rib detection; scoliosis

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; ACCURACY LEVEL; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; BIPLANAR; BONE STRUCTURE; CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; DETECTION ACCURACY; EDGE FOLLOWING; MULTIPLE-PATH; PERCEPTUAL ANALYSIS; PERCEPTUAL PARALLELISM; SCOLIOSIS; SCOLIOTIC DEFORMITIES; SEMI-AUTOMATED;

PIXELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BONE STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RIB MALFORMATION; SCOLIOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIBS; SCOLIOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858951853     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2168394     Document Type: Article

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