Measures of complexity and processing of vertebral CT-images

Author

Saparin, Peter I. ; Gowin, Wolfgang ; Kurths, Jurgen ; Felsenberg, Dieter

Author_Institution

Dept. of Nonlinear Dynamics, Potsdam Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1997

Firstpage

526

Abstract

The authors propose an algorithm which processes computed tomography images of vertebral bodies and quantifies their structure. Vertebral bodies are segmented from the connective and soft tissue background, and then the image of the entire vertebrae are split into the cortical and trabecular bone. At the next stage, several criteria, based on nonlinear dynamics, complexity measures and symbolic dynamics, are applied. These measures can contribute significantly to the early diagnostics of changes in bone structure, which are specific for osteoporosis and other bone diseases

Keywords

computerised tomography; diseases; image segmentation; medical image processing; orthopaedics; bone diseases; bone structure changes; connective tissue background; cortical bone; early diagnostics; entire vertebrae splitting; medical diagnostic imaging; nonlinear dynamics; osteoporosis; soft tissue background; symbolic dynamics; trabecular bone; vertebral CT-images processing; vertebral bodies; Biological tissues; Bone diseases; Cancellous bone; Computed tomography; Image segmentation; Minerals; Osteoporosis; Physics; Radiology; Spine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.757662

Filename

757662