Improving Femoral Bone Strength Prediction through Characterization of Trabecular Micro-architecture with Anisotropic Minkowski Functionals and Quantitative Anisotropy Measures
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Osteoporosis is characterized by changes to the trabecular bone micro-architecture in addition to reduction in bone mineral density (BMD). This study proposes using anisotropic Minkowski Functionals (AMF) for characterizing trabecular bone micro-architecture and evaluates their ability at predicting bone strength when analyzed with support vector regression (SVR).
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