Three-dimensional morphological and signal intensity features for detection of intervertebral disc degeneration from magnetic resonance images

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1082-1090

  Neubert, A ^a,b   Fripp, J ^a   Engstrom, C ^b   Walker, D ^c   Weber, M A ^d   Schwarz, R ^e   Crozier, S ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Wesley Medical Centre   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISC DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICAL SHAPE MODELS;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84886293182     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001547     Document Type: Article

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