Clavicle segmentation in chest radiographs

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1490-1502

  Hogeweg, Laurens ^a   Sánchez, Clara I ^a   de Jong, Pim A ^b   Maduskar, Pragnya ^a   van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Clavicles; Pixel classification; Segmentation; System combination

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SHAPE MODELS; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; CLAVICLE SEGMENTATION; CLAVICLES; HUMAN OBSERVERS; LARGE DATABASE; MULTIPLE STRUCTURES; PIXEL CLASSIFICATION; SHAPE INFORMATION; SYSTEM COMBINATION; TEST IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE; CLAVICLE SEGMENTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CLAVICLE; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 84870063201     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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