Automatic scoliosis detection based on local centroids evaluation on moire topographic images of human backs.

Automatic scoliosis detection based on local centroids evaluation on moire topographic images of human backs.

This paper presents a technique for automating human scoliosis detection by computer based on moire topographic images of human backs. Scollosis is a serious disease often suffered by teenagers. For prevention, screening is performed at schools in Japan employing a moire method in which doctors insp...

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Bibliografski detalji
Izdano u:IEEE Transactions on medical imaging 20, 12 (2001).
Glavni autor: Hyoung Seop Kim
Format: Članak
Jezik:English
Teme:
Japanese schools.
Mahalanobis distance.
Automatic scoliosis detection.
Doctors exhaustion.
Human backs.
Leave-out method.
Linear discriminant function.
Linear discriminant functions.
Local centroids evaluation.
Moire topographic images.
School screening.
Serious disease.
Spinal deformity.
Teenagers.
Two-dimensional feature space.