Localization and Segmentation of 3D Intervertebral Discs in MR Images by Data Driven Estimation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1719-1729

  Chen, Cheng ^a   Belavy, Daniel ^b   Yu, Weimin ^a   Chu, Chengwen ^a   Armbrecht, Gabriele ^b   Bansmann, Martin ^c   Felsenberg, Dieter ^b   Zheng, Guoyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Krankenhaus Porz am Rhein   (Germany)

Author keywords

intervertebral discs; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Segmentation; spine

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIXELS;

AUTOMATIC LOCALIZATION; DISPLACEMENT VALUE; FOREGROUND/BACKGROUND; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; SMOOTH CONSTRAINTS; SPINE; STATE OF THE ART;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROBABILITY; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; PROCEDURES; SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE;

EID: 84938595979     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2403285     Document Type: Article

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