Bone mineral density (BMD) measurements and fracture analysis of the spine bones are restricted to the Vertebral bodies (VBs), especially the trabecular bones (TBs). In this paper...
Melih S. Aslan, Asem M. Ali, Ham Rara, Ben Arnold,...
Osteoporosis is a bone disease characterized by a reduction in bone mass, resulting in an increased risk of fractures. To diagnose the osteoporosis accurately, bone mineral densit...
Melih S. Aslan, Asem M. Ali, Dongqing Chen, Ben Ar...
In this paper, we propose a new 3D framework to identify and segment VBs and TBs in clinical computed tomography (CT) images without any user intervention. The Matched filter is e...
Melih S. Aslan, Asem M. Ali, Ham Rara, Aly A. Fara...
Cognitive systems are trained to recognise perceptually meaningful parts of an image. These regions contain some variation, i.e. local texture, and are roughly convex. We call suc...
The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular tool in statistical estimation problems involving incomplete data or in problems which can be posed in a similar form, suc...