Diagnostic workstation for digital hand atlas in bone age assessment

被引：3

作者：

Cao, F ^{[1
]}

Huang, HK ^{[1
]}

Pietka, E ^{[1
]}

Gilsanz, V ^{[1
]}

Ominsky, S ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif San Francisco, Sch Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA

来源：

IMAGE DISPLAY - MEDICAL IMAGING 1998 | 1998年 / 3335卷

关键词：

digital atlas; pediatric radiology; hand image; skeletal age assessment; computers;

D O I：

10.1117/12.312539

中图分类号：

R318 [生物医学工程];

学科分类号：

0831 ;

摘要：

Bone age assessment by a radiological examination of a hand and wrist image is a procedure frequently performed in pediatric patients to evaluate growth disorders, determine growth potential in children and monitor therapy effects. The assessment method currently used in radiological diagnosis is based on atlas matching of the diagnosed hand image with the reference set of atlas patterns, which was developed in 1950s and is not fully applicable for children of today. We intend to implement a diagnostic workstation for creating a new reference set of clinically normal images which will serve as a digital atlas and can be used for a computer-assisted bone age assessment. In this paper, we present the initial data-collection and system setup phase of this five-year research program. We describe the system design, user interface implementation and software tool development for collection, visualization, management and processings of clinically normal hand and wrist images.

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页码：608 / 614

页数：7