Title
Desiccation Diagnosis in Lumbar Discs from Clinical MRI with A Probabilistic Model
Abstract
Lumbar intervertebral disc diseases are among the main causes of lower back pain (LBP). Desiccation is a common disease resulting from various reasons and ultimately most people are affected by desiccation at some age. We propose a probabilistic model that incorporates intervertebral disc appearance and contextual information for automating the diagnosis of lumbar disc desiccation. We utilize a Gibbs distribution for processing localized lumbar intervertebral discs' appearance and contextual information. We use 55 clinical T2-weighted MRI for lumbar area and achieve over 96% accuracy on a cross validation experiment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193105
ISBI
Keywords
Field
DocType
pixel,gibbs distribution,context modeling,probability,mri,accuracy,cross validation,probabilistic model,magnetic resonance imaging
Contextual information,Computer-aided diagnosis,Back pain,Desiccation,Lumbar,Radiology,Intervertebral disc,Medicine,Magnetic resonance imaging
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
1.19
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raja' S. Alomari116716.03
Corso Jason J.2144292.44
Vipin Chaudhary383883.24
Gurmeet Dhillon413011.09