Ossification area localization in pediatric hand radiographs using deep neural networks for object detection

• Sven Koitka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Koitka, Aydin Demircioglu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sven.koitka@uk-essen.de

  Affiliations Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany, Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9704-1180

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• Aydin Demircioglu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sven Koitka, Aydin Demircioglu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

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• Moon S. Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7546-3910

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• Christoph M. Friedrich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology (IMIBE), University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7906-0038

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• Felix Nensa

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5811-7100

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