Individual trabecula segmentation (after Liu, Sajda and Saha et al.)

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Interesting technique to create a shape- and topology-preserving skeleton then classifying and dilating it to segment individual trabeculae.

Liu X, Sajda P, Saha P, Wehrli F, Bevill G, Keaveny T, et al. Complete volumetric decomposition of individual trabecular plates and rods and its morphological correlations with anisotropic elastic moduli in human trabecular bone. J. Bone Miner. Res. 2008;23:223-235. doi:10.1359/JBMR.071009

Saha PK, Chaudhuri BB, Dutta Majumder D. A new shape preserving parallel thinning algorithm for 3D digital images. Pattern Recognit. 1997;30:1939-1955. doi:10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00016-2