Title :
Objective analysis of simple kidney cysts from CT images
Author :
Battiato, S. ; Farinella, G.M. ; Gallo, G. ; Garretto, O. ; Privitera, C.
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Matematia e Inf., Univ. di Catania, Catania, Italy
Abstract :
Simple kidney cysts analysis from CT images is nowadays performed in a direct visual and hardly reproducible way. Computer-aided measurements of simple kidney cysts from CT images may help radiologists to accomplish an objective analysis of the clinical cases under observation. We propose a semi-automatic segmentation algorithm for this task. Experiments performed on real datasets confirm the effectiveness and usefulness of the proposed method.
Keywords :
computerised tomography; diagnostic radiography; image segmentation; kidney; medical image processing; computer-aided measurement; computerised tomography; kidney cysts; semiautomatic segmentation algorithm; Abdomen; Biomedical imaging; Computed tomography; DICOM; Data mining; Density measurement; Image analysis; Image segmentation; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Computer Tomography; Computer-Aided Image Analysis; Segmentation; Simple Kidney Cysts;
Conference_Titel :
Medical Measurements and Applications, 2009. MeMeA 2009. IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Cetraro
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3598-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3599-9
DOI :
10.1109/MEMEA.2009.5167973
