Detection of rib borders on X-ray chest radiographs

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2004

Authors

R. Moreira (Author) Other; Ana Maria Mendonça (Author) FEUP; Aurélio Campilho (Author) FEUP

Journal

The Journal is awaiting validation by the Administrative Services.

Title: IMAGE ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, PT 2, PROCEEDINGS

Vol. 13

Pages: 108-115

Indexing

ISI Proceedings

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Scopus - 3 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Biomedical enginnering ; Technological sciences > Technology > Computer technology > Image processing

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-CXJ

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30126-4_14

Abstract (EN): The purpose of the research herein presented is the automatic detection of the rib borders in posterior-anterior (PA) digital chest radiographs. In a computer-aided diagnosis system, the precise location of the ribs is important as it allows reducing the false positive in the detection of abnormalities such as nodules, rib lesions and lung lesions. We adopted an edge based approach aiming at detecting the lower border of each rib. For this purpose, the rib geometric model is described as a parabola. For each rib, the upper limit is obtained using the position of the corresponding lower border.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8