id: 06004165
dt: j
an: 06004165
au: Zieliński, Bartosz
ti: Hand radiograph analysis and joint space location improvement for image
    interpretation.
so: Schedae Inform. 17-18, 45-61 (2009).
py: 2009
pu: Jagiellonian University, Institute of Computer Science; Versita, Warsaw
la: EN
cc: 
ut: image processing; medical imaging; radiology; rheumatoid arthritis; X-ray
    photo; thresholding; joint space location; joint space width
ci: 
li: doi:10.2478/v10149-010-0003-4
ab: Summary: Hand radiograph analysis is extremely exhausting and time
    consuming for radiologists, not because of the complexity, but because
    of the precision required during diagnosis. Due to this fact, automatic
    analysis of the joint space width of all joints in a hand would be
    indispensable. In the following paper, an improvement of a method used
    to quantify the minimal JSW in hand radiographs, proposed by the author
    in his previous works, is considered. The proposed changes have an
    impact on initial pre-processing and joint space location. As a result
    of experiments conducted on more than 1100 joint spaces, the overall
    error of pre-processing and joint location decreases from 10.8\% to
    2.59\% after changes.
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