Trabecular bone quality metric from X-ray images for osteoporosis detection

This paper proposes a method for diagnosis of osteoporosis disease by analyzing the trabecular bone pattern. The idea behind such a technique is to assist the physician to detect, control and treat various forms of osteoporosis in the early stage. The degree of disease is calculated by analyzing trabecular bone pattern using series of image processing techniques and common image quality measures. The experimental results conducted on twenty people reveals that proposed method identifies the disease by specifying the intensity of the disease.