학술논문
Automatic segmentation of cortical and trabecular components of bone specimens acquired by pQCT
Document Type
Conference
Source
2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. :486-489 Aug, 2008
Subject
Language
ISSN
1094-687X
1558-4615
1558-4615
Abstract
Peripheral Quantitative Computerized Tomography (pQCT) allows the acquisition of bone specimens with a spatial resolution adequate to visualize the 3D structure of the bone cortex and the trabecular network. At present, pQCT scanners are equipped with image processing software that limits the bone analysis in two dimensions and requires strong user interaction. In this work, a method is proposed to automatically segment, in 3D, cortical and trabecular components of bone specimens acquired by pQCT, in order to facilitate and enhance the quantitative evaluation of densitometric properties of the bone.