Vladimir Juras¹, Veronika Janáčová¹, Pavol Szomolanyi¹, Markus Schreiner², Didier Laurent³, Celeste Scotti³, and Siegfried Trattnig^1
1Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ³Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland

Fully automated analysis of knee articular cartilage combines quantitative morphological and compositional information from 21 anatomically well-defined subfields of the knee joint and provides reproducible and robust evaluation of the cartilage volume, thickness and composition.