Title :
Carpal growth assessment based on fuzzy description
Author :
Hsieh, Chi-Wen ; Jong, Tai-Lang ; Tiu, Chui-Mei
Author_Institution :
Electrophys. Dept., Nat. Chiao-Tung, Taipei
Abstract :
The article presents the fuzzy membership functions to evaluate the carpal growth maturity in pediatrics. Geometric condition of carpals was analyzed to extract the computerized features of carpals. In addition, principal component analysis was also recruited as the selector in de-fuzzy process. The resultant membership functions were sent into the bone age estimation to identify the efficiency. The simulation results indicated the misclassification of bone age was less than 10% within 1.5 year´s tolerance.
Keywords :
bone; fuzzy set theory; medical computing; paediatrics; principal component analysis; carpal growth assessment; defuzzy process; fuzzy description; fuzzy membership functions; geometric condition; pediatrics; principal component analysis; Application software; Bones; Computer applications; Computer industry; Feature extraction; Fingers; Image edge detection; Medical treatment; Radiography; Radiology; Fuzzy theory; bone age assessment; carpal; membership function;
Conference_Titel :
Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, 2008. SMCia '08. IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Muroran
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3782-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-4-9904-2590-6
DOI :
10.1109/SMCIA.2008.5045989
