Fractal signature and lacunarity in the measurement of the texture of trabecular bone in clinical CT images

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 369-380

  Dougherty, Geoffrey ^a   Henebry, Geoffrey M ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone architecture; Fractal dimension; Fractal signature; Lacunarity; Texture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; FRACTALS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; TEXTURES;

FRACTAL SIGNATURE; LACUNARITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METRIC SYSTEM; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROMETRY; TRABECULAR BONE;

ADULT; BONE DENSITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034846306     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(01)00057-1     Document Type: Article

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