Calculation algorithm of hepatorenal contrast in ultrasonic images based on fuzzy inference

Author

Hatakeyama, Yutaka ; Kataoka, Hiromi ; Nakajima, Noriaki ; Watabe, Teruaki ; Okuhara, Yoshiyasu

Author_Institution

Center of Med. Inf. Sci., Kochi Univ., Kochi, Japan

fYear

2009

Firstpage

916

Lastpage

920

Abstract

A calculation algorithm for hepatorenal contrast from real ultrasonic images is proposed for analysis research of time series change in patient condition by aging. It provides automatic calculation of kidney pelvis position based on fuzzy inference, which detects kidney and liver region for hepatorenal contrast to calculate. Experimental calculation results for 150 ultrasonic images taken in real treatment from Kochi Medical School hospital show that accuracy of kidney pelvis detection is 93% and that correlation coefficient of hepatorenal contrast with normal gamma-GT is 0.82. The proposed algorithm is being considered for use in analysis of condition change in Center of Medical Information Science, Kochi Medical School.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; fuzzy reasoning; medical image processing; ultrasonic imaging; Kochi Medical School hospital; fuzzy inference; hepatorenal contrast; kidney pelvis position; ultrasonic images; Aging; Algorithm design and analysis; Biomedical imaging; Change detection algorithms; Image analysis; Inference algorithms; Liver; Medical treatment; Pelvis; Time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fuzzy Systems, 2009. FUZZ-IEEE 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Jeju Island

ISSN

1098-7584

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3596-8

Electronic_ISBN

1098-7584

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUZZY.2009.5277141

Filename

5277141