Title :
Measuring bilateral symmetry in digital images
Author :
O´Mara, David ; Owens, Robyn
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia
Abstract :
An important example of bilateral symmetry in nature is the approximate bilateral symmetry exhibited by humans. Detecting and measuring bilateral symmetry in medical images should provide benefits in a clinical environment. This paper presents a method for detecting the dominant plane of bilateral symmetry in an image of arbitrary dimension and subsequently measuring the degree of bilateral symmetry in the image. By adapting the work of others, we provide a unique solution to the problem by using a simple representation of the data and a more sensitive measure of symmetry
Keywords :
biomedical measurement; image representation; medical image processing; medical signal processing; symmetry; approximate bilateral symmetry; bilateral symmetry detection; bilateral symmetry measurement; clinical environment; data representation; digital images; image dimension; image representation; medical images; Anthropometry; Biomedical imaging; Data compression; Digital images; Humans; Image edge detection; Magnetic field measurement; Medical robotics; Reflection; Robot vision systems;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '96. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE TENCON. Digital Signal Processing Applications
Conference_Location :
Perth, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3679-8
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1996.608740
