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In this paper, a syntactic method of pattern recognition is applied to hand radiographs interpretation, in order to recognize erosions and osteophytes in the finger joints. It is shown that, the classical Jakubowski transducer does not distinguish contours of healthy bones from contours of affected bones. Therefore, the modifications of the transducer are introduced. It is demonstrated, that the modified transducer correctly recognizes the classes of bone shapes obtained based on the medical classification: healthy bone class, erosion bone class and osteophyte bone class.
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Bielecka, M., Bielecki, A., Korkosz, M., Skomorowski, M., Wojciechowski, W., Zieliński, B. (2011). Modified Jakubowski Shape Transducer for Detecting Osteophytes and Erosions in Finger Joints. In: Dobnikar, A., Lotrič, U., Šter, B. (eds) Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms. ICANNGA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20267-4_16
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