Bone structure radiological image analysis of healthy people and people with osteoporosis

Abstract

Bone structure analysis is necessary, when determining the bone strength and measuring the bone micro architecture deterioration, that happens as a result of such a bone disease as osteoporosis. In this paper a method is proposed to automatically measure changes in bone structure by analyzing medical images, which were acquired by computer tomography at different time intervals. The proposed method was tested on sets of medical images from two patient groups: practically healthy patients (not diagnosed with osteoporosis) and patients diagnosed with osteoporosis.