An Automated Method to Segment the Femur for Osteoarthritis Research

In this paper we develop a fully automated method for the segmentation of the femur in axial MR images and its use in the analysis of imaging biomarkers for osteoarthritis (OA). The proposed method is based on anatomical constraints implemented using morphological operations to extract the femur med...

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Main Authors: Prescott, Jeffrey W., Pennell, Michael, Best, Thomas M., Swanson, Mark S., Haq, Furqan, Jackson, Rebecca, Gurcan, Metin N.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826829/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19964163
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333257
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