Fully Automated Muscle Ultrasound Analysis (MUSA): Robust and Accurate Muscle Thickness Measurement

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 195-205

  Caresio, Cristina ^a   Salvi, Massimo ^a   Molinari, Filippo ^a   Meiburger, Kristen M ^a   Minetto, Marco Alessandro ^b,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic muscle thickness measurements; Muscle ultrasonography; Musculoskeletal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; THICKNESS GAGES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

B-MODE ULTRASOUND IMAGES; COMPUTER AIDED-APPROACH; MANUAL MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDIAL GASTROCNEMIUS; MUSCLE THICKNESS; MUSCLE ULTRASOUNDS; NON- INVASIVE MEASUREMENTS;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; APONEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; B SCAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MALE; MUSCLE ECHOGRAPHY; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE THICKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL ECHOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOMETRY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84991757066     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2016.08.032     Document Type: Article

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