Method for Automated Selection of the Trabecular Area in Digital Periapical Radiographic Images Using Morphological Operations.

Enny Itje Sela Reza Pulungan Rini Widyaningrum Rurie Ratna Shantiningsih

Published in: Healthcare informatics research (2019)

The shape of the trabecular bone area produced by the proposed method is similar and closer to that identified by dentists. The method, which consists of only simple morphological operations on digital periapical radiographic images, can be considered for selecting the trabecular bone area automatically.

Keyphrases

bone mineral density
deep learning
postmenopausal women
body composition
convolutional neural network
optical coherence tomography
machine learning
soft tissue
high throughput
bone regeneration
cone beam computed tomography