3D identification of trabecular bone fracture zone using an automatic image registration scheme: A validation study

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2035-2040

  Tassani, Simone ^a,b   Matsopoulos, George K ^a   Baruffaldi, Fabio ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS   (Greece)

^b RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fracture parameters; Image processing; Three dimensional automatic registration; Trabecular bone; Trabecular fracture zone

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; AUTOMATIC IMAGE REGISTRATION; AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION; DATA SETS; FAILURE ASSESSMENT; FRACTURE PARAMETER; FRACTURE ZONE; IN-VITRO; LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; LOCAL FRACTURES; MECHANICAL COMPRESSION; MICRO CT; REGISTRATION SCHEME; TRABECULAR BONES; VALIDATION STUDY; VISUAL IDENTIFICATION; VISUAL PROCESS;

AUTOMATION; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; IMAGE PROCESSING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRABECULAR BONE; TRABECULAR BONE FRACTURE; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CADAVER; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84863583513     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2012.05.019     Document Type: Article

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