An Automatic Recognition of the Frontal Sinus in X-Ray Images of Skull

Author

Tabor, Zbislaw ; Karpisz, Dariusz ; Wojnar, Leszek ; Kowalski, Piotr

Author_Institution

Inst. of Appl. Comput. Sci., Cracow

Volume

56

Issue

2

fYear

2009

Firstpage

361

Lastpage

368

Abstract

In the present paper, a procedure is developed for fully automatic recognition of the frontal sinus in cranial radiographs. An X-ray image of a whole skull is required at the input of the procedure, which consists of three subsequent steps: the selection of a rectangular region of interest, containing the sinus; detection of the line of brow ridges; and fronto-nasal suture, detection of the borders of the frontal sinus. The recognition algorithm is based on a method of connectivity-preserving thresholding, introduced in the present study, and on watersheds from markers. Totally, 50 X-ray images have been analyzed. The frontal sinus borders were recognized correctly in 41 cases.

Keywords

bone; diagnostic radiography; image recognition; medical image processing; X-ray images; automatic recognition; connectivity-preserving thresholding; cranial radiographs; frontal sinus; skull; Bones; Computer science; Cranial; Forensics; Image recognition; Radiography; Shape; Skull; X-ray detection; X-ray detectors; X-ray imaging; Graph algorithms; minimal paths; watershed from markers; Algorithms; Frontal Sinus; Pattern Recognition, Automated; Skull;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9294

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBME.2008.2003090

Filename

4599235