Automated threshold-independent cortex segmentation by 3D-texture analysis of HR-pQCT scans

Bone

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 480-487

  Valentinitsch, Alexander ^a   Patsch, Janina M ^a,d   Deutschmann, Julia ^a   Schueller Weidekamm, Claudia ^a   Resch, Heinrich ^b   Kainberger, Franz ^a   Langs, Georg ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b St Vincent Hospital Vienna   (Austria)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical bone metrics; Fully automated segmentation; HR pQCT; Texture analysis; Threshold independent

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BONE STRUCTURE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DICE COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION PERIPHERAL QUANTITATIVE COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; THICKNESS; THRESHOLD INDEPENDENT SEGMENTATION TOOL; TRABECULAR BONE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RADIUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864779323     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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