A new method of segmentation of compact-appearing, Transitional and trabecular compartments and quantification of cortical porosity from high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomographic images

Bone

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-20

  Zebaze, R ^a,b   Ghasem Zadeh, A ^a,b   Mbala, A ^b   Seeman, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b StraxCorp PTY LTD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cortical bone; Curve profile analysis; Edge finding; Image analysis; Microstructure; Non threshold based segmentation; Porosity; StrAx1.0; Transitional zone

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BONE MASS; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; OSTEOLYSIS; POROSITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIUS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TIBIA; TRABECULAR BONE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BONE AND BONES; FEMUR; HUMANS; POROSITY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIUS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIBIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873495411     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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