On the segmentation and classification of hand radiographs

International Journal of Neural Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Davis, Luke M ^a   Theobald, Barry John ^a   Lines, Jason ^a   Toms, Andoni ^b   Bagnall, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hand segmentation; Outline classification; Outline ensemble

Indexed keywords

BONE AGE; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; ENSEMBLE ALGORITHMS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; OUTLINE ENSEMBLE; PREDICTIVE MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RADIOGRAPH IMAGES; RANDOM FORESTS; VOTING SCHEMES;

BONE; DECISION TREES;

ALGORITHMS;

AGE DETERMINATION; AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FINGER; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HAND; HAND BONE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; CHILD; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HAND; HAND BONES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOFTWARE; X-RAYS;

EID: 84866031055     PISSN: 01290657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129065712500207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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