@inproceedings{26cdae0be4424055bc424b5bee4866fe,
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.",
keywords = "Computer aided diagnosis, Desiccation diagnosis, Lumbar discs, MRI",
author = "Alomari, {Raja S.} and Corso, {Jason J.} and Vipin Chaudhary and Gurmeet Dhillon",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193105",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424439324",
series = "Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009",
pages = "546--549",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging",
note = "2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009 ; Conference date: 28-06-2009 Through 01-07-2009",
}