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Improved Quantification of Bone Remodelling by Utilizing Fuzzy Based Segmentation

Joakim Lindblad19 Contact Information, Nataša Sladoje20 Contact Information, Vladimir Ćurić20 Contact Information, Hamid Sarve19 Contact Information, Carina B. Johansson21 Contact Information and Gunilla Borgefors19 Contact Information

(19)  Centre for Image Analysis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 337, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
(20)  Faculty of Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
(21)  Department of Clinical Medicine, Örebro University, SE-701 85 Örebro, Sweden
Abstract
We present a novel fuzzy theory based method for the segmentation of images required in histomorphometrical investigations of bone implant integration. The suggested method combines discriminant analysis classification controlled by an introduced uncertainty measure, and fuzzy connectedness segmentation method, so that the former is used for automatic seeding of the later. A thorough evaluation of the proposed segmentation method is performed. Comparison with previously published automatically obtained measurements, as well as with manually obtained ones, is presented. The proposed method improves the segmentation and, consequently, the accuracy of the automatic measurements, while keeping advantages with respect to the manual ones, by being fast, repeatable, and objective.

Contact Information Joakim Lindblad
Email: joakim@cb.uu.se

Contact Information Nataša Sladoje
Email: sladoje@uns.ac.rs

Contact Information Vladimir Ćurić
Email: vcuric@uns.ac.rs

Contact Information Hamid Sarve
Email: hamid@cb.uu.se

Contact Information Carina B. Johansson
Email: carina.johansson@oru.se

Contact Information Gunilla Borgefors
Email: gunilla@cb.uu.se
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