A novel method of estimating structure model index from gray-level images

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 218-225

  Tabor, Zbisław ^a  

^a CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gray level; Histomorphometry; Image analysis; Osteoporosis; Trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; CLINICAL DATA; CT DATA; CT IMAGE; DISTAL RADIUS; FINITE SIZE; GRAY LEVEL IMAGE; GRAY-LEVEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HISTOMORPHOMETRY; IMAGE DEGRADATION; INTENSITY GRADIENTS; LIMITED RESOLUTION; NOVEL METHODS; OSTEOPOROSIS; REAL APPLICATIONS; STANDARD DEFINITIONS; STANDARD METHOD; STRUCTURE MODELS; STRUCTURING ELEMENT; TRABECULAR BONES;

BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; STANDARDS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TRABECULAR BONE;

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

EID: 79951772913     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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