# Separating Cortical and trabecular region of Talus bone

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/separating-cortical-and-trabecular-region-of-talus-bone/19049>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Tags:** segmentation, dicom\
**Created:** [August 4, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/separating-cortical-and-trabecular-region-of-talus-bone/19049 "2021-08-04T06:55:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Manav\_Kothari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/manav_kothari/32/11104_2.png) [@Manav\_Kothari](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Manav_Kothari)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/separating-cortical-and-trabecular-region-of-talus-bone/19049/1 "2021-08-04T06:55:54Z")

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I am interested in separating cortical and trabecular region of Talus bone and generate individual STL file. There is one add-on in Analyze Direct software named Bone Microarchitecture Analysis (BMA). Is there any similar function in Slicer as well?

Thanking You

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/separating-cortical-and-trabecular-region-of-talus-bone/19049/2 "2021-08-04T14:41:15Z")

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I’m not sure if they have the same functionality as the software you mentioned, but these might help:

[https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/4.10/Extensions/BoneTextureExtension](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/4.10/Extensions/BoneTextureExtension)

[https://pyradiomics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html](https://pyradiomics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)

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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/separating-cortical-and-trabecular-region-of-talus-bone/19049/3 "2021-08-04T15:28:48Z")

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> [@pieper](#):
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> [Documentation/4.10/Extensions/BoneTextureExtension - Slicer Wiki](https://www.slicer.org/wiki/Documentation/4.10/Extensions/BoneTextureExtension)

Unfortunately bone texture extension is not functional for sometime now.

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/separating-cortical-and-trabecular-region-of-talus-bone/19049/4 "2021-08-04T15:53:48Z")

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> [@muratmaga](#):
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> Unfortunately bone texture extension is not functional for sometime now.

What’s not working? It seems to be building right, as least on windows, and I don’t see any issues in the tracker.

[https://slicer.cdash.org/build/2346236](https://slicer.cdash.org/build/2346236)

> **[Issues · Kitware/BoneTextureExtension](https://github.com/Kitware/BoneTextureExtension/issues)**
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> Slicer extensions for computing feature maps of N-Dimensional images using well-known texture analysis methods. - Issues · Kitware/BoneTextureExtension

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**Author:** ![muratmaga](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/muratmaga/32/3622_2.png) [@muratmaga](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/muratmaga)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/separating-cortical-and-trabecular-region-of-talus-bone/19049/5 "2021-08-04T15:56:13Z")

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Yes, extension was built but the feature maps did not compute/displayed for quite sometime. But looks like they just fixed it, haven’t it tried it yet though.

> <https://github.com/Kitware/BoneTextureExtension/issues/22>
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> 3dslicer: 4.10.02
> Dell G7 7590
> Win10 10.0.17763