Improved detection of synovial boundaries in ultrasound examination by using a cascade of active-contours

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 188-194

  Veronese, Elisa ^a   Stramare, Roberto ^a   Campion, Andrea ^a   Raffeiner, Bernd ^a   Beltrame, Valeria ^a   Scagliori, Elena ^a   Coran, Alessandro ^a   Ciprian, Luca ^a   Fiocco, Ugo ^a   Grisan, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active contour; Rheumatoid arthritis; Segmentation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; DIRECT VISUALIZATION; DISEASED JOINTS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FINGER JOINTS; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MEAN SENSITIVITY; METACARPOPHALANGEAL; MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIMILARITY INDICES; ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION; USER INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICE SIMILARITY INDEX; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84872361372     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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