Title :
Knowledge-based interpretation of thyroid scintigrams
Author :
Grimm, Felix ; Fábregas, Xavier ; Bunke, Horst ; Weiss, Stefan ; Wittwer, Reto
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Inf. & Angewandte Math., Bern Univ., Switzerland
Abstract :
This paper describes a system for the interpretation of thyroid scintigrams. In addition to low level image processing methods like smoothing, segmentation, and approximation, knowledge-based methods are used in order to match features extracted from the scintigram with other informations obtained during diagnostic examination. The system has been applied on a series of real patient cases and shown good performance
Keywords :
medical diagnostic computing; medical expert systems; medical image processing; approximation; diagnostic examination; knowledge-based interpretation; knowledge-based methods; low level image processing methods; segmentation; smoothing; thyroid scintigrams; Biomedical imaging; Data mining; Diagnostic expert systems; Feature extraction; Glands; Image processing; Image segmentation; Medical diagnostic imaging; Morphology; Shape;
Conference_Titel :
Applications of Computer Vision, 1994., Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Sarasota, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6410-X
DOI :
10.1109/ACV.1994.341315
