Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 344-353 , March 2010

Semi-automated segmentation to assess the lateral meniscus in normal and osteoarthritic knees

  • M.S. Swanson

      Affiliations

    • College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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  • J.W. Prescott

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
    • College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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  • T.M. Best

      Affiliations

    • Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University Sports Medicine Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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  • K. Powell

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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  • R.D. Jackson

      Affiliations

    • College of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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  • F. Haq

      Affiliations

    • Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University Sports Medicine Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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  • M.N. Gurcan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to: M. Gurcan, Department of Biomedical informatics, The Ohio State University, 333 W Tenth Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, United States. Tel: 1-614-292-1084.

Received 3 April 2009 ,Accepted 9 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2009.10.004

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 344-353 , March 2010

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