Automatic Detection of Rib Contours in Chest Radiographs: An Application of Image Processing Techniques in Medical Diagnosis

by WECHSLER

1.1 Statement of the Problem This work describes a new and effective computer algorithm for detecting the contours of ribs in ehest radiographs. The problem, which is common to both the research areas of Machine Vision and Biomedical Computing, is to extract graphical information, such as that represented in Figure 1-lb, from a picture such as Figure 1-la. Figure 1-la shows a typical posterior-anterior (PA) ehest radiograph while Figure 1-lb shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3764308877
• ISBN13: 9783764308872
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"