Development of image viewer for analyzing of temporal subtraction from chest CT images

Recently, CT (Computed Tomography) scanner is used for detecting the abnormalities because CT scanner gradually becomes high resolution and high speed. However, with the improvement of the resolution of CT images, the number of CT images becomes huge. Therefore, radiologists have to analyze huge number of images and they sometimes misdiagnoses are happened. Hence, to deal with this problem the CAD (Computer Aided Diagnosis) system is developed. One of the CAD systems called temporal subtraction technique is useful to detect abnormalities in medical field. There is no viewer system which displays abnormal region using temporal subtraction technique. In this paper, we develop a novel temporal subtraction technique to help the radiologists to reduce diagnostic ti me and improve the diagnostic accuracy.