Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1430-1439 , December 2009

Measurement of bone cyst fluid volume using k-means clustering

  • Pierre-Louis Docquier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Research Laboratory, Saint-Luc University Hospital, 10, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Laurent Paul

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Research Laboratory, Saint-Luc University Hospital, 10, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
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  • Renaud Menten

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Radiology, Saint-Luc University Hospital, 10, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200 Belgique, Belgium
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  • Olivier Cartiaux

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Research in Mechatronics, Catholic University of Louvain, Place du Levant, 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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  • Bernard Francq

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Statistics, Catholic University of Louvain, 20, Voie du Roman-Pays, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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  • Xavier Banse

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Research Laboratory, Saint-Luc University Hospital, 10, Avenue Hippocrate, 1200 Brussels, Belgium

Received 4 December 2008 ,Revised 14 March 2009 ,Accepted 10 May 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2009.05.017

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 27, Issue 10 , Pages 1430-1439 , December 2009

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