Continuous measurement of the mandibular cortical bone in dental panoramic radiographs for the diagnosis of osteoporosis using a clustering algorithm on histograms

APSIPA ASC 2010 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 560-567

  Kavitha, M S ^a   Li, Liang ^a   Samopa, Febriliyan ^b   Asano, Akira ^a   Taguchi, Akira ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING   (Indonesia)

^c MATSUMOTO DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLUSTERING ALGORITHM; BONE MINERAL DENSITY; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; CORTICAL BONE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMORAL NECKS; LUMBAR SPINES; MANDIBULAR CORTICAL BONES; MENTAL FORAMEN; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPH; POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN; ROBUST ESTIMATE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BONE; DATA PROCESSING; GRAPHIC METHODS; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 79958126294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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