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    Oriented fractal analysis for improved bone microarchitecture characterization
    (Elsevier, 2017) Harrar, Khaled; Jennane, Rachid; Zaouchi, Karima; Janvier, Thomas; Toumi, Hechmi; Lespessailles, Eric
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    Osteoporosis assessment using Multilayer Perceptron neural networks
    (IEEE, 2012) Harrar, Khaled; Hamami, L.; Akkoul, S.; Lespessailles, E.
    The objective of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) to discriminate subjects with and without osteoporosis using a set of five parameters characterizing the quality of the bone structure. These parameters include Age, Bone mineral content (BMC), Bone mineral density (BMD), fractal Hurst exponent (Hmean) and coocurrence texture feature (CoEn). The purpose of the study is to detect the potential usefulness of the combination of different features to increase the classification rate of 2 populations composed of osteporotic patients and control subjects. k-fold Cross Validation (CV) was used in order to assess the accuracy and reliability of the neural network validation. Compared to other methods MLP-based analysis provides an accurate and reliable platform for osteoporosis prediction. Moreover, the results show that the combination of the five features provides better performance in terms of discrimination of the subjects
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    Trabecular Texture Analysis Using Fractal Metrics for Bone Fragility Assessment
    (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2015) Harrar, Khaled; Jennane, Rachid
    The purpose of this study is the discrimination of 28 postmenopausal with osteoporotic femoral fractures from an age-matched control group of 28 women using texture analysis based on fractals. Two pre-processing approaches are applied on radiographic images; these techniques are compared to highlight the choice of the pre-processing method. Furthermore, the values of the fractal dimension are compared to those of the fractal signature in terms of the classification of the two populations. In a second analysis, the BMD measure at proximal femur was compared to the fractal analysis, the latter, which is a non-invasive technique, allowed a better discrimination; the results confirm that the fractal analysis of texture on calcaneus radiographs is able to discriminate osteoporotic patients with femoral fracture from controls. This discrimination was efficient compared to that obtained by BMD alone. It was also present in comparing subgroups with overlapping values of BMD
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    Piecewise whittle estimator for trabecular bone radiograph characterization
    (Elsevier, 2013) Harrar, Khaled; Hamami, Latifa; Lespessailles, Eric; Jennane, Rachid