Characterization of trabecular bone structure from high-resolution magnetic resonance images using fuzzy logic

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1023-1029

  Carballido Gamio, Julio ^a   Phan, Catherine ^a   Link, Thomas M ^a   Majumdar, Sharmila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; High resolution magnetic resonance imaging; Segmentation; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE STRUCTURE; BONE TISSUE; CALCANEUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTROPY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SOFT TISSUE; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; CALCANEUS; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RADIUS;

EID: 33748747386     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.04.010     Document Type: Article

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