Local plate/rod descriptors of 3D trabecular bone micro-CT images from medial axis topologic analysis

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4364-4376

  Peyrin, Françoise ^a,b,c,d,e   Attali, Dominique ^f   Chappard, Christine ^g,h   Benhamou, Claude Laurent ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^f GIPSA LAB   (France)

^g INSERM   (France)

^h Paris university   (France)

Author keywords

three dimensional image analysis; x ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISEASE CONTROL; GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BONE MICROARCHITECTURE; HUMAN TRABECULAR BONE; LOCAL ANALYSIS METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SURFACE IRREGULARITIES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; TRABECULAR BONE MICROARCHITECTURE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149485029     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3447728     Document Type: Article

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