Multislice human organ extraction based on GVF

Author

Ardizzone, E. ; Pirrone, R. ; Gambino, O. ; Vitabile, S. ; Scarnato, M. ; Lo Re, G. ; Galia, M. ; Midiri, M.

Author_Institution

Universita´´ degli Studi di Palermo-Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica viale delle Scienze-Edificio 6-Terzo Piano- 90128 (Italy)

fYear

2008

fDate

20-25 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

3087

Lastpage

3090

Abstract

Segmentation techniques based on active contours algorithm are widely used in medical imaging. Unfortunately, they require a lot of parameters to be used and this can represent an issue for those physicians with not much informatics skills. This paper proposes a software tool which allows to segment multiple slice can differ organ extraction setting a small number of parameters. Moreover, the tool offers the functionality to perform a multiple segmentation the same time, so that an entire volume composed by hundreds slices can be segmented.

Keywords

Active contours; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical informatics; Computed tomography; Costs; Elasticity; Heart; Human computer interaction; Image segmentation; Software tools; Algorithms; Computer Graphics; Contrast Media; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; Models, Theoretical; Reproducibility of Results; Software; Software Design; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1814-5

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649856

Filename

4649856