Automated quantitative microstructural analysis of metastatically involved vertebrae: Effects of stereologic model and spatial resolution

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-194

  Hojjat, Seyed Parsa ^a,b   Whyne, Cari M ^a,b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automation; Bony architecture; Micro structure; Resolution; Spinal metastases

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; ARCHITECTURAL PARAMETERS; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATED APPLICATIONS; AUTOMATED METHODS; BONY ARCHITECTURE; CORTICAL SHELL; CT IMAGE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SCANNING; HILDEBRAND MODELS; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE-BASED; LARGE DATASETS; MEAN INTERCEPT LENGTH; METASTATIC DISEASE; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; MICROSTRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE RESOLUTIONS; POST PROCESSING; RESOLUTION; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPINAL METASTASES; STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENTS; STRUCTURAL DATA; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; TRABECULAR BONES; TRABECULAR THICKNESS;

ANISOTROPY; AUTOMATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; RATING; SCANNING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPINE METASTASIS; STEREOMETRY; THICKNESS; TRABECULAR BONE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79951775377     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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