Title :
Computer vision applied to the detection and localisation of acoustic neuromas from head MR images
Author :
Dickson, S. ; Thomas, B.T. ; Mackeown, W.J.P. ; Goddard, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Bristol Univ., UK
fDate :
8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A method is described for the detection and localisation of benign tumours from head MR images. Detection is carried out at the pixel level using a neural network based approach. The results of this are fused with regions, formed by a robust edge-region segmentation, to enable identification of regions corresponding to part of a tumour. The method described achieves a high sensitivity and specificity, and all tumours in the example set are detected
Keywords :
biomedical NMR; computer vision; edge detection; image classification; image segmentation; image texture; multilayer perceptrons; acoustic neuromas; benign tumour detection; benign tumour localisation; computer vision; head MR images; neural network based approach; pixel level detection; robust edge-region segmentation;
Journal_Title :
Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings -
DOI :
10.1049/ip-vis:19960690
