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Fractal signature and lacunarity in the measurement of the texture of trabecular bone in clinical CT images

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The fractal signatures of small regions of interest (32x32 pixels), computed in the frequency domain after corrections for imaging system noise and MTF, were able to characterize the texture of vertebral trabecular bone in CT images.
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This article is published in Medical Engineering & Physics.The article was published on 2001-07-01. It has received 89 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fractal analysis & Lacunarity.

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Fractal and multifractal analysis: a review.

TL;DR: The aim of this review is to explain and to categorize the various algorithms into groups and their application in the field of medical signal analysis.
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Fractal dimension applied to plant identification

TL;DR: Methods to identify plants by analysing leaf complexity based on estimating their fractal dimension, using a computational program to process, analyze and extract the features of leaf images, thereby allowing for automatic plant identification.

Biological and medical physics, biomedical engineering

TL;DR: The Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering Series is intended to be comprehensive, covering a broad range of topics important to the study of the physical, chemical and biological sciences.
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Leaf shape analysis using the multiscale Minkowski fractal dimension, a new morphometric method: a study with Passiflora (Passifloraceae)

TL;DR: A small number of leaves per species was sufficient for establishing a characteristic pattern for each of them, which constitutes an important advantage of the method in the recognition and classification procedure.
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Integrated spectral and image analysis of hyperspectral scattering data for prediction of apple fruit firmness and soluble solids content

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used spectral and image features extracted from the hyperspectral scattering images over the wavelength region of 500-1000 nm, using spectral scattering profile and image analysis techniques.
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Algorithms for random fractals

Dietmar Saupe
TL;DR: Fractals have been used to simulate many natural phenomena in the past 200 years and they are easy to generate on computers as discussed by the authors, and the complexity of a fractal when measured in terms of the length of the shortest computer program that can generate it is very small.
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Quantitative CT for determination of bone mineral density: a review

TL;DR: The author reviewed this literature to provide both the historic perspective and current status of BMD measurement with CT, the physical and physiologic bases of the method, accuracy, reproducibility, radiation dose, and clinical utility.
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An efficient approach to estimate fractal dimension of textural images

TL;DR: A new method is proposed to estimate fractal dimension in a two-dimensional (2D) image which can readily be extended to a 3D image as well.
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Fractal approach to two-dimensional and three-dimensional surface roughness

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that a fractal number D can be associated with any profile or cartography, by processing a z ( x ) profile as would be done with a random motion x ( t ).
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Measurement and significance of three-dimensional architecture to the mechanical integrity of trabecular bone

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the relationship between bone volume fraction and connectivity may be substantially altered under conditions associated with aging, fragility, or metabolic bone disease, consistent with the histologic, evidence of reduced connectivity in osteopenic patients.
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