Measuring bilateral symmetry in digital images

Author

O´Mara, David ; Owens, Robyn

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Australia Univ., Nedlands, WA, Australia

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

26-29 Nov 1996

Firstpage

151

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON '96. Proceedings., 1996 IEEE TENCON. Digital Signal Processing Applications

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3679-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.1996.608740

Filename

608740