background: jaw bone quality plays an essential role in treatment planning and prognosis of dental implants. regarding several available methods for bone density measurements, they are not routinely used before implant surgery due to hard accessibility. objective: an in vitro investigation of correlation between average gray scale in direct digital radiographs and hounsfield units in ct-scan pr...

Efficient implementation of morphological operations requires the decomposition of structuring elements into the dilation of smaller structuring elements. Zhuang and Haralick (1986) presented a search algorithm to find optimal decompositions of structuring elements in binary morphology. We use the concepts of Top of a set and Umbra of a surface to extend this algorithm to find an optimal decomp...

We present an algorithm to reconstruct gray scale images corrupted by noise. We use a Bayesian approach. The unknown original image is assumed to be a realization of a Markov random field on a finite two dimensional region Λ ⊂ Z2. This image is degraded by some noise, which is assumed to act independently in each site of Λ and to have the same distribution on all sites. For the estimator we use...

It has been just five years since gray-scale ultrasound (U/S) became clinically available. Yet the day-to-day importance of U/S in general medicine and surgerynot just the traditional areas of ob/gyn and echocardiography-would be hard to overestimate. Because U/S is so new, however, there are still many clinicians who are ill at ease with those funny fuzzy speckled images, so different from the...

OBJECTIVE To assess the value of MicroPure, a new ultrasound image processing technique, in identifying microcalcifications (formed by monosodium urate crystals) in the first metatarsophalangeal joints attacked by gout compared to gray-scale ultrasound images. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-six patients who fulfilled the study inclusion criteria underwent gray-scale ultrasound and MicroPure exa...

Background: Jaw bone quality plays an essential role in treatment planning and prognosis of dental implants. Regarding several available methods for bone density measurements, they are not routinely used before implant surgery due to hard accessibility.Objective: An in vitro investigation of correlation between average gray scale in direct digital radiographs and Hounsfield units in CT-Scan pro...