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Extraocular muscle quantification using mathematical morphology: A semi-automatic method for analyzing muscle enlargement in orbital diseases
✍ Scribed by André Domingos Araújo Souza; Evandro Eduardo Seron Ruiz; Antonio Augusto Velasco Cruz
- Book ID
- 104015801
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 623 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-6111
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✦ Synopsis
Mathematical morphology was used to quantify the dimensions of the human extraocular muscles in computed tomography orbital scans. Coronal images of 28 patients with Graves orbitopathy and 5 controls (218 orbital scans) were analyzed with an algorithm for extraocular muscle segmentation. The results showed that measurements of extraocular muscle area obtained with semi-automatic segmentation are highly correlated with manual tracing and provides a simple method to quantify orbital structures including the extraocular muscles.