Technique for bone volume measurement from human femur head samples by classification of micro-CT image histograms

• Main Authors: Franco Marinozzi (Author), Fabiano Bini (Author), Andrea Marinozzi (Author), Francesca Zuppante (Author), Annalisa De Paolis (Author), Raffaella Pecci (Author), Rossella Bedini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2013-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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INTRODUCTION: Micro-CT analysis is a powerful technique for a non-invasive evaluation of the morphometric parameters of trabecular bone samples. This elaboration requires a previous binarization of the images. A problem which arises from the binarization process is the partial volume artifact. Voxel...