TY  - CONF
AU  - Joan M. Nuñez
AU  - Debora Gil
AU  - Fernando Vilariño
A2  - BIODEVICES
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Finger joint characterization from X-ray images for rheymatoid arthritis assessment
BT  - 6th International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices
SP  - 288
EP  - 292
PB  - SciTePress
KW  - Rheumatoid Arthritis
KW  - X-Ray
KW  - Hand Joint
KW  - Sclerosis
KW  - Sharp Van der Heijde
N2  - In this study we propose amodular systemfor automatic rheumatoid arthritis assessment which provides a joint space width measure. A hand joint model is proposed based on the accurate analysis of a X-ray finger joint image sample set. This model shows that the sclerosis and the lower bone are the main necessary features in order to perform a proper finger joint characterization. We propose sclerosis and lower bone detection methods as well as the experimental setup necessary for its performance assessment. Our characterization is used to propose and compute a joint space width score which is shown to be related to the different degrees of arthritis. This assertion is verified by comparing our proposed score with Sharp Van der Heijde score, confirming that the lower our score is the more advanced is the patient affection.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0004327302880292
N1  - IAM;MV; 600.057; 600.054;SIAI
ID  - Joan M. Nuñez2013
ER  -