Diagnostic workstation for digital hand atlas in bone age assessment

Fei Cao; H. K. Huang; Ewa Pietka; Vicente Gilsanz; Steven Ominsky

doi:10.1117/12.312539

26 June 1998 Diagnostic workstation for digital hand atlas in bone age assessment

Fei Cao, H. K. Huang, Ewa Pietka, Vicente Gilsanz, Steven Ominsky

Proceedings Volume 3335, Medical Imaging 1998: Image Display; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.312539
Event: Medical Imaging '98, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

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 intent 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 processing of clinically normal hand and wrist images.

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Fei Cao, H. K. Huang, Ewa Pietka, Vicente Gilsanz, and Steven Ominsky "Diagnostic workstation for digital hand atlas in bone age assessment", Proc. SPIE 3335, Medical Imaging 1998: Image Display, (26 June 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.312539

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