Unsupervised Rib Delineation in Chest Radiographs by an Integrative Approach

B. Buket Ogul, Emre Sümer, Hasan Ogul

2015

Abstract

We address the problem of segmenting ribs in a chest radiography image as an intermediate step for eliminating rib shadows for an effective Computer-Aided Diagnosis System (CAD). To this end, we introduce a complete framework that takes an unprocessed x-ray image and reports the entire rib regions. The system offers a novel strategy to fit a parabola curve to all rib seeds obtained through a log Gabor filtering approach and extend the center curve by a problem-specific region growing technique to delineate the entire rib, which does not necessarily follow a general parabolic model of rib cage. The visual examinations of predicted rib delineations in a common dataset have demonstrated that the system can achieve a reasonably good performance to be used in practice.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ogul B., Sümer E. and Ogul H. (2015). Unsupervised Rib Delineation in Chest Radiographs by an Integrative Approach . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-089-5, pages 260-265. DOI: 10.5220/0005361602600265

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp15,
author={B. Buket Ogul and Emre Sümer and Hasan Ogul},
title={Unsupervised Rib Delineation in Chest Radiographs by an Integrative Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={260-265},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005361602600265},
isbn={978-989-758-089-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Unsupervised Rib Delineation in Chest Radiographs by an Integrative Approach
SN - 978-989-758-089-5
AU - Ogul B.
AU - Sümer E.
AU - Ogul H.
PY - 2015
SP - 260
EP - 265
DO - 10.5220/0005361602600265