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SUBMITTER: Moussavi-Harami SF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3682491 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moussavi-Harami S Farshid SF Pedersen Douglas R DR Martin James A JA Hillis Stephen L SL Brown Thomas D TD
Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society 20090401 4
Histologic assessment of cartilage degradation has traditionally involved semiquantitative techniques, the most commonly utilized being the Mankin scale. Such assessments depend on human observer subjectivity, and thus have drawn criticism on the basis of associated inter- and intraobserver variability. We report a newly developed computational image analysis procedure for fully automated and fully objective assessment of the Mankin scale. Image processing routines were developed in a widely use ...[more]