Automated Bone Age Assessment: Motivation, Taxonomies, and Challenges

Bone age assessment (BAA) of unknown people is one of the most important topics in clinical procedure for evaluation of biological maturity of children. BAA is performed usually by comparing an X-ray of left hand wrist with an atlas of known sample bones. Recently, BAA has gained remarkable ground f...

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Main Authors: Marjan Mansourvar, Maizatul Akmar Ismail, Tutut Herawan, Ram Gopal Raj, Sameem Abdul Kareem, Fariza Hanum Nasaruddin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/391626