FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS IN SEGMENTATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES - A Look at the Pros and Cons

Pawel Badura, Jacek Kawa, Joanna Czajkowska, Marcin Rudzki, Ewa Pietka

2011

Abstract

An attempt to recapitulate and conclude numerous experiences with the fuzzy connectedness theory applied to medical image segmentation is made in this paper. The fuzzy connectedness principles introduced in 1996 have been developed and tested in dozens of studies in past 15 years; many advantages, as well as shortcomings have been discovered and described. Some aspects of the method and its applications have been summarized here, including the examples of specific 2D and 3D medical studies with various objects, subjected to fuzzy connected segmentation. Deliberation about the usefulness of multiseeded and multiobject variants is also present. An algorithm optimized for matrix computations-based programming languages is introduced. Finally, 3 fuzzy connectedness-based computer aided diagnosis systems are described and evaluated.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Badura P., Kawa J., Czajkowska J., Rudzki M. and Pietka E. (2011). FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS IN SEGMENTATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES - A Look at the Pros and Cons . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: FCTA, (IJCCI 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-83-6, pages 486-492. DOI: 10.5220/0003670904860492

in Bibtex Style

@conference{fcta11,
author={Pawel Badura and Jacek Kawa and Joanna Czajkowska and Marcin Rudzki and Ewa Pietka},
title={FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS IN SEGMENTATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES - A Look at the Pros and Cons},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: FCTA, (IJCCI 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={486-492},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003670904860492},
isbn={978-989-8425-83-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: FCTA, (IJCCI 2011)
TI - FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS IN SEGMENTATION OF MEDICAL IMAGES - A Look at the Pros and Cons
SN - 978-989-8425-83-6
AU - Badura P.
AU - Kawa J.
AU - Czajkowska J.
AU - Rudzki M.
AU - Pietka E.
PY - 2011
SP - 486
EP - 492
DO - 10.5220/0003670904860492