Open AccessAutomatic Tools for Diagnosis Support of Total Hip Replacement Follow-up
Author(s) -
Laura Florea,
Corneliu Florea,
Constantin Vertan,
Alina Sultana
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2011.04009
Subject(s) - computer science , total hip replacement , medicine , surgery
Total hip replacement is a common procedure in today orthopedics, with high rate of long-term success. Failure prevention is based on a regular follow-up aimed at checking the prosthesis fit and state by means of visual inspection of radiographic images. It is our purpose to provide automatic means for aiding medical personnel in this task. Therefore we have constructed tools for automatic identification of the component parts of the radiograph, followed by analysis of interactions between the bone and the prosthesis. The results form a set of parameters with obvious interest in medical diagnosis