Analysis of adductors angle measurement in Hammersmith infant neurological examinations using mean shift segmentation and feature point based object tracking

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 925-934

  Dogra, D P ^a   Majumdar, A K ^a   Sural, S ^a   Mukherjee, J ^a   Mukherjee, S ^b   Singh, A ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Adductors angle measurement; Exponential regression; Image segmentation; Infant neurological examinations; Object tracking; Straight line fitting; Thinning; Video analysis

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL REGRESSION; LINE FITTING; NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OBJECT TRACKING; THINNING; VIDEO ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

NEUROLOGY;

ADDUCTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HAMMERSMITH INFANT NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EXPERT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LEG; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 84865558960     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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