Fractal dimension estimation and its applicability to biomedical image analysis

Author

Sarangan, Venkatesh ; Chugh, Kevin ; Ke, C.C. ; Swarnakar, Vivek ; Acharya, Raj

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

It is proposed to use the fractal dimension estimation techniques “Alternating Sequential Filter (ASF)” and “Continuous Alternating Sequential Filter (CASF)” to differentiate normal bones from bones that have osteoporosis. Comparison of our methods with existing techniques is done to show the efficacy of our methods. We compare our methods to Power Spectrum Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) and Morphological Dilation methods of estimating the fractal dimension. Results on synthetic and real life images are presented

Keywords

bone; diagnostic radiography; filtering theory; fractals; medical image processing; ASF; Alternating Sequential Filter; CASF; Continuous Alternating Sequential Filter; Morphological Dilation methods; Power Spectrum Maximum Likelihood Estimation; biomedical image analysis; fractal dimension estimation; normal bones; osteoporosis; real life images; synthetic images; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical imaging; Bones; Computer science; Filters; Fractals; Image analysis; Maximum likelihood estimation; Osteoporosis; State estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804057

Filename

804057