Determination of the trabecular bone direction from digitised radiographs

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 719-729

  Defossez H ^a   Hall, R M ^a,b   Walker, P G ^a   Wroblewski, B M ^c   Siney, P D ^c   Purbach, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WRIGHTINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Fractal; Matrix; Radiographs; Spatial frequency; Texture analysis; Trabecular bone structure

Indexed keywords

PELVIC RADIOGRAPHS; TRABECULAR BONES;

BONE; FRACTALS; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; FEMUR NECK; HUMAN; IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRABECULAR BONE; X RAY FILM; ALGORITHM; BONE MATRIX; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMUR HEAD; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BONE MATRIX; FEMUR HEAD; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 4143093738     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(03)00123-1     Document Type: Article

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