Detection of esophageal lumen contour and abnormality from endoscopic images

Author

Xue, Z.Y. ; Krishnan, S.M. ; Lin, Z.Y.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

Proposes a new method based on computerized image processing to extract the boundary of the esophageal lumen and assess the status by detecting the possible presence of abnormalities from color endoscopic images. The proposed method involves a combination of thresholding, region growing, boundary extraction, contour smoothing and curvature computing. The experimental results tend to support the feasibility of this proposed method

Keywords

biological organs; biomedical imaging; cancer; edge detection; image colour analysis; medical image processing; smoothing methods; tumours; abnormality; boundary extraction; color endoscopic images; computerized image processing; contour smoothing; curvature computing; endoscopic images; esophageal lumen contour detection; region growing; thresholding; Cancer; Color; Computer errors; Diseases; Esophagus; Histograms; Image processing; Image segmentation; Neoplasms; Smoothing methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804316

Filename

804316