A new approach to automatic disc localization in clinical lumbar MRI: Combining machine learning with heuristics

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 114-117

  Ghosh, Subarna ^a   Malgireddy, Manavender R ^a   Chaudhary, Vipin ^a   Dhillon, Gurmeet ^b  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b Proscan Imaging Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Disc Localization; Lumbar MRI

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DISC LOCALIZATION; AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATION; BOUNDING BOX; CHRONIC PAIN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION METHOD; LOWER BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISC; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SVM(SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE);

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84864863831     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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