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The Shape Language Application to Evaluation of the Vertebra Syndesmophytes Development Progress

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Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC 2018)

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In this paper, a measure for assessment the progress of pathological changes in spine bones is introduced. The definition of the measure is based on a syntactic description of geometric features of the bone contours. The proposed approach is applied for analysis of vertebra syndesmophytes in X-ray images of the spine. It turns out that the proposed measure assesses the progress of the disease effectively. The results obtained by the algorithm based on the introduced measure are consistent with the assessment done by an expert.

This paper was supported by the AGH - University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection as a part of the statutory project.

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  1. Chair of Geoinformatics and Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland

    Marzena Bielecka

  2. Department of Radiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Cracow, Poland

    Rafał Obuchowicz

  3. Division of Rheumatology, Departement of Internal Medicine and Gerontology, Jagiellonian University Hospital, Śniadeckich 10, 31-531, Cracow, Poland

    Mariusz Korkosz

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Bielecka, M., Obuchowicz, R., Korkosz, M. (2018). The Shape Language Application to Evaluation of the Vertebra Syndesmophytes Development Progress. In: Rutkowski, L., Scherer, R., Korytkowski, M., Pedrycz, W., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zurada, J. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10842. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91262-2_11

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