Identification and Study of trabecular fracture zone
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Aims Bone fracture risk analysis is a mandatory issue for the prevention of traumatic events and the reduction of medical efforts. The standard analysis for the evaluation of bone fracture risk is the analysis of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) [1, 2]. However, using only BMD to predict bone fracture risk was demonstrated to be not reliable [3]. This is probably due to the role of morphology in bone mechanical structure, which is not taken into consideration by BMD. The increasing use of local analysis for the in-vitro study of trabecular structure [4-6] suggests the importance of local morphometric characteristics of the tissue on the global mechanical behavior. Identification of the broken region can permit to isolate and study the broken region itself and its mechanical behavior, but an extensive approach was always avoided due to the time consuming nature of a manual procedure [4, 5].
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