Author : Marian Wahba
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659222504
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (225 download)
Book Synopsis Automated Modified Region Growing Technique for Ultrasound Images by : Marian Wahba
Download or read book Automated Modified Region Growing Technique for Ultrasound Images written by Marian Wahba and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical imaging plays a vital role in the medical field because it is widely used in diseases diagnosis and treatment of patients. There are different modalities of medical imaging such as ultrasounds, x-rays, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance (MR), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Most of these modalities usually suffer from noise and other sampling artifacts. The diagnosis process in these modalities depends mainly on the interpretation of the radiologists. Consequently, the diagnosis is subjective as it is based on the radiologist experience. Medical image segmentation is an important process in the field of image processing. It has a significant role in many applications such as diagnosis, therapy planning, and advanced surgeries. In this book, we propose a new approach for automatic prostate segmentation of Trans-Rectal UltraSound (TRUS) images by dealing with the speckle not as noise but as informative signals. The proposed approach overcomes the requirement of manually selecting a seed point for initializing the segmentation process. The experimental results of the proposed approach show that it is fast and accurate.