Generalizing the mean intercept length tensor for gray-level images

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4599-4612

  Moreno, Rodrigo ^a,b   Borga, Magnus ^a,b   Smedby, Örjan ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

extended Gaussian image; fabric tensors; mean intercept length tensor; shape analysis; trabecular bone

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CONVOLUTION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EXTENDED GAUSSIAN IMAGES; FABRIC TENSORS; MEAN INTERCEPT LENGTH; SHAPE ANALYSIS; TRABECULAR BONES;

TENSORS;

EID: 84864194281     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4730502     Document Type: Article

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