Thickness analysis and reconstruction of trabecular bone and bone substitute microstructure based on fuzzy distance map using both ridge and thinning skeletonization

Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-62

  Darabi, Akbar ^a   Chandelier, Florent ^a   Baroud, Gamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bone assessment; Bone substitute; FDT ridges; Fuzzy distance transform (FDT); Osteoporotic; Skeletonization; Thinning

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS;

BONE ASSESSMENT; BONE SUBSTITUTES; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; FUZZY DISTANCE; FUZZY DISTANCE TRANSFORM; FUZZY DISTANCE TRANSFORM RIDGE; OSTEOPOROTIC; SKELETONIZATION; THINNINGS;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

EID: 70350662384     PISSN: 08408688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/CJECE.2009.5291208     Document Type: Article

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