Segmentation of bone CT images and assessment of bone structure using measures of complexity

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3857-3873

  Saparin, Peter ^a   Thomsen, Jesper Skovhus ^b   Kurths, Jürgen ^c   Beller, Gisela ^d   Gowin, Wolfgang ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e Hunter Imaging Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone structure; Cortical bone; CT; Image segmentation; Nonlinear dynamics; Quantification; Trabecular bone; Trabecular bone characterization

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXTURES;

BONE STRUCTURE; CORTICAL BONE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; QUANTIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; TRABECULAR BONE STRUCTURES; TRABECULAR BONES; X-RAY ATTENUATION DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE STRENGTH; BONE STRUCTURE; CALCANEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMERUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE; VERTEBRA BODY;

EID: 33749424420     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2336501     Document Type: Article

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