A multi-center milestone study of clinical vertebral CT segmentation

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2016, Pages 16-28

  Yao, Jianhua ^a   Burns, Joseph E ^b   Forsberg, Daniel ^c   Seitel, Alexander ^d   Rasoulian, Abtin ^d   Abolmaesumi, Purang ^d   Hammernik, Kerstin ^e   Urschler, Martin ^f   Ibragimov, Bulat ^g   Korez, Robert ^g   Vrtovec, Tomaž ^g   Castro Mateos, Isaac ^h   Pozo, Jose M ^h   Frangi, Alejandro F ^h   Summers, Ronald M ^a   Li, Shuo ⁱ  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^f LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; STATISTICAL TESTS;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED; EVALUATION METRICS; MEDICAL IMAGE COMPUTING; MULTIPLE CENTERS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA; VERTEBRA BODY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CALIFORNIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THORACIC VERTEBRA; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85015775511     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2015.12.006     Document Type: Article

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