A Lightweight U-Net Architecture Multi-Scale Convolutional Network for Pediatric Hand Bone Segmentation in X-Ray Image

Bone age assessment (BAA) is a common radiological examination used in pediatrics based on an analysis of ossification centers and epiphyses of hand bones. Segmentation of hand bones could help give specific descriptions of hand bone features in medical records and assess bone age automatically. Thi...

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Main Authors: Lian Ding, Kai Zhao, Xiaodong Zhang, Xiaoying Wang, Jue Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8720177/