Detection of linear features including bone and skin areas in ultrasound images of joints

Identifying the separate parts in ultrasound images such as bone and skin plays a crucial role in the synovitis detection task. This paper presents a detector of bone and skin regions in the form of a classifier which is trained on a set of annotated images. Selected regions have labels: skin or bon...

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Main Authors: Artur Bąk, Jakub Segen, Kamil Wereszczyński, Pawel Mielnik, Marcin Fojcik, Marek Kulbacki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018-03-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/4411.pdf