Development of an analysis system of the X-rays of bones [for prosthesis placement]

Author

Castro, Alfonso ; Arcay, Bernardino ; Dafonte, Carlos ; Santos, Antonino ; Suárez, Jesus

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of A Coruna, Spain

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1795

Abstract

This article presents the current development state of a system for the analysis of radiological images. Its purpose is to provide the clinicians with information that helps him to take decisions on the placing of prostheses: type of prosthesis, implantation point, etc. At present we are developing the segmentation module that is based on tests with different algorithms and used for the analysis of medical images, focusing on different elements: edge detectors and adaptive clustering algorithms

Keywords

artificial limbs; bone; diagnostic radiography; edge detection; fuzzy set theory; image segmentation; medical image processing; orthopaedics; pattern clustering; Canny detector; adaptive clustering algorithms; adaptive fuzzy C-means; bone X-rays analysis system; edge detectors; grey scale; homomorphic filter; implantation point; medical images; prostheses placement; prosthesis type; radiological images; segmentation module; thresholding hysteresis; Algorithm design and analysis; Biomedical imaging; Bones; Clustering algorithms; Image analysis; Image edge detection; Image segmentation; Medical tests; Prosthetics; X-rays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6465-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2000.900433

Filename

900433