title: Computer assisted bone age assessment.
abstract: Skeletal or bone age assessment is a very common and important task in the pediatric radiology. To estimate the bone age, visual methods are used which are strongly physician dependent and time-consuming. In order to overcome these disadvantages computerization of bone analysis is being tried. In this paper an approach for computer assisted bone age assessment is presented which tries to take typical computer capabilities into advantage by the concept of pattern recognition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Universität Heidelberg/Fachhochschule Heilbronn, Max-Planck-Strasse 39, D74081 Heilbronn, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dickhaus
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wastl
mesh_terms: D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton / Q000379:methods*; D001846:Bone Development; D002648:Child; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006225:Hand / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted