Local bone enhancement fuzzy clustering for segmentation of MR trabecular bone images

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 295-302

  Folkesson, Jenny ^a   Carballido Gamio, Julio ^a   Eckstein, Felix ^b   Link, Thomas M ^a   Majumdar, Sharmila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Segmentation; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; BONE; FRACTURE; FUZZY CLUSTERING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BONE MICROARCHITECTURE; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; SECOND-ORDER FEATURES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS; TRABECULAR BONES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 73649119539     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3264615     Document Type: Article

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