title: Notes on the implementation of the mass-radius method of fractal dimension estimation.
abstract: The graphical implementation in computers and image analysers of the mass-radius method of fractal dimension estimation has two sources of error. The first is associated with underestimation of area of the 'circle scan' in a square matrix; the second arises from the overestimation of areas at small radii. Methods of coping with these problems are described.
authors.affiliation: Oral Pathology Unit, School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham, St Chad's Queensway, UK.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Landini
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Rippin
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001699:Biometry; D003196:Computer Graphics; D017709:Fractals; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted