Title
Automated Segmentation and Retrieval System for CT Head Images
Abstract
In this paper, automatic segmentation and retrieval of medical images are presented. For the segmentation, different unsupervised clustering techniques are employed to partition the Computed Tomography (CT) brain images into three regions, which are the abnormalities, cerebrospinal fluids (CSF) and brain matters. The novel segmentation method proposed is a dual level segmentation approach. The first level segmentation, which purpose is to acquire abnormal regions, uses the combination of fuzzy c-means (FCM) and k-means clustering. The second level segmentation performs either the expectation-maximization (EM) technique or the modified FCM with population-diameter independent (PDI) to segment the remaining intracranial area into CSF and brain matters. The system automatically determines which algorithm to be utilized in order to produce optimum results. The retrieval of the medical images is based on keywords such as "no abnormal region", "abnormal region(s) adjacent to the skull" and "abnormal region(s) not adjacent to the skull". Medical data from collaborating hospital are experimented and promising results are observed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-05036-7_11
IVIC
Keywords
Field
DocType
ct head images,different unsupervised clustering technique,brain matter,medical image,automated segmentation,retrieval system,dual level segmentation approach,abnormal region,novel segmentation method,level segmentation,automatic segmentation,brain image,medical data,image retrieval,k means clustering,expectation maximization,brain imaging,computed tomography
Computer vision,Scale-space segmentation,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Fuzzy logic,Segmentation-based object categorization,Image retrieval,Image segmentation,Region growing,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5857
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hau-Lee Tong1215.15
Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi29114.64
Ryoichi Komiya38810.24