Detection of ribcage boundary from digital chest image

Details Detection of ribcage boundary from digital chest image Detection of ribcage boundary from digital chest image

2006-08-01

2006-08-01

Werner, Brian (Department: 2621)

Image analysis

Applications

Biomedical applications

C382S168000, C128S922000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07085407

ABSTRACT:
To provide more accurate ribcage boundary information and landmark information, the size of a searching ROI which is mapped on a digital chest image is decided, the ROI is set on the image, an image existing within the region that is set on the image is enhanced, a profile of pixel values existing within the region is obtained, and the obtained profile is analyzed so that candidate points for a ribcage boundary are obtained. The deciding, setting, enhancing, obtaining, and analyzing operations are repeated until a center of each searching ROI advances immediately before a given search limit. As a result, a series of candidate points for the ribcage boundary is provided.

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