Computer aided erosions and osteophytes detection based on hand radiographs

作者：

Highlights：

• We introduce a new algorithm of local segmentation based on a region growing.

• We define a new shape description language for syntactic pattern recognition.

• We present a multi-stage algorithm, which expands on those created so far.

• We designed, implemented and tested an automatic computer system which detects erosions and osteophytes (the system operator has to only load the image and mark the area of the analysis).

摘要

Highlights•We introduce a new algorithm of local segmentation based on a region growing.•We define a new shape description language for syntactic pattern recognition.•We present a multi-stage algorithm, which expands on those created so far.•We designed, implemented and tested an automatic computer system which detects erosions and osteophytes (the system operator has to only load the image and mark the area of the analysis).

论文关键词：Medical imaging,Radiographs,Computer aided rheumatoid diagnosis,Erosions,Osteophytes,Image processing,Image analysis,Syntactic pattern recognition

论文评审过程：Received 13 October 2013, Revised 25 November 2014, Accepted 23 January 2015, Available online 2 February 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2015.01.018