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A semiautomatic segmentation approach to biometric measurement of the talus bone of sedentary women and ballerinas using CT images Cover

A semiautomatic segmentation approach to biometric measurement of the talus bone of sedentary women and ballerinas using CT images

Open Access
|Mar 2017

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Figure 1

Flowchart of the study
Flowchart of the study

Figure 2

Measurements of the talus bone using a 3D image (3D-Doctor; Able Software Corp, Lexington, MA, USA)
Measurements of the talus bone using a 3D image (3D-Doctor; Able Software Corp, Lexington, MA, USA)

Figure 3

3D-Reconstruction of a ballerina’s right foot skeleton using 3D-Doctor (Able Software Corp, Lexington, MA, USA). Talus bone shown in blue.
3D-Reconstruction of a ballerina’s right foot skeleton using 3D-Doctor (Able Software Corp, Lexington, MA, USA). Talus bone shown in blue.

Talus bone measurements of ballerinas and sedentary women

No.BallerinaSedentary
Right foot (cm)Left foot (cm)Right foot (cm)Left foot (cm)
13.433.393.203.34
23.463.113.313.04
33.483.293.653.17
43.523.333.293.29
53.313.353.253.36

Descriptive statistics for the talus bones of ballerinas and sedentary women

nMean (cm)Standard DeviationVariance
Ballerina103.370.120.01
Sedentary women103.290.160.03

Talus bone volumes

NoSedentary volume (cm3)Ballerina volume (cm3)
right footleft footright footleft foot
124.826.625.926.3
227.527.424.323.7
324.826.624.925.0
427.527.324.325.2
527.828.724.224.3
mean26.527.324.724.9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.1005.508 | Journal eISSN: 1875-855X | Journal ISSN: 1905-7415
Language: English
Page range: 455 - 459
Published on: Mar 31, 2017
Published by: Chulalongkorn University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 6 issues per year

© 2017 Hatice Catal Reis, Bulent Bayram, Dursun Zafer Seker, published by Chulalongkorn University
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