Title
An edge-region force guided active shape approach for automatic lung field detection in chest radiographs.
Abstract
Automatic and accurate lung field segmentation is an essential step for developing an automated computer-aided diagnosis system for chest radiographs. Although active shape model (ASM) has been useful in many medical imaging applications, lung field segmentation remains a challenge due to the superimposed anatomical structures. We propose an automatic lung field segmentation technique to address the inadequacy of ASM in lung field extraction. Experimental results using both normal and abnormal chest radiographs show that the proposed technique provides better performance and can achieve 3–6% improvement on accuracy, sensitivity and specificity compared to traditional ASM techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.04.005
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Computer-aided diagnosis,Chest radiograph,Edge and region force,Active shape model,Poisson inverse gradient,Shape priors,Level set
Journal
36
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0895-6111
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.66
25
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tao Xu1110.66
Mrinal K. Mandal246142.97
Richard Long3110.99
Irene Cheng428335.18
Anup Basu574997.26