ANALYSIS OF BONE X-RAYS USING MORPHOLOGICAL FRACTALS

被引:53
作者
SAMARABANDU, J [1 ]
ACHARYA, R [1 ]
HAUSMANN, E [1 ]
ALLEN, K [1 ]
机构
[1] SUNY BUFFALO, DEPT ORAL BIOL, BUFFALO, NY 14260 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1109/42.241873
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
We have applied mathematical morphology for fractal analysis of bone x-ray images. The digitized gray level image is treated as a three-dimensional surface whose fractal dimension is calculated by performing a series of dilations on this surface and plotting the area of the resulting set of surfaces against the size of the structuring element. This approach gives us the added advantage of encoding structural information via the use of a structuring element. The algorithm has been applied to several bone radiographs and the results demonstrate that the fractal dimension using mathematical morphology gives us a robust texture measure of trabecular bone structures.
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页数:5
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