• DocumentCode
    1740866
  • Title

    Automatic segmentation of lung regions in chest radiographs: a model guided approach

  • Author

    Luo, Hui ; Gaborski, R. ; Acharya, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    10-13 Sept. 2000
  • Firstpage
    483
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a knowledge-based, fully automatic method for identifying lung regions in digital chest radiographs is described. The method uses an object-oriented knowledge model to appropriately integrate the anatomical knowledge and image processing routines in lung detection. A series of chest radiographs are employed to test the proposed method; the experimental results are encouraging.
  • Keywords
    diagnostic radiography; image recognition; image segmentation; knowledge based systems; lung; medical image processing; object-oriented methods; anatomical knowledge; automatic segmentation; chest radiographs; digital chest radiographs; image processing routines; knowledge-based fully automatic method; lung regions; model guided approach; object-oriented knowledge model; Anatomy; Deformable models; Diagnostic radiography; Histograms; Image processing; Image segmentation; Lungs; Object oriented modeling; Pixel; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Image Processing, 2000. Proceedings. 2000 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • ISSN
    1522-4880
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6297-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIP.2000.899459
  • Filename
    899459