Title
An improved approach of lung image segmentation based on watershed algorithm
Abstract
As a preprocessing step of chest Computed Tomography (CT) images, lung segmentation is significant for the diagnosis of lung disease. The traditional watershed algorithm is sensitive to the noise and has the drawback of over-segmentation problem. This paper presents a novel image segmentation method to improve Watershed segmentation algorithm with the maximum between-class variance algorithm (OTSU). We adopt the OTSU method and mathematical morphology method in the period of the initial image segmentation and then compute a segmentation function. Finally, we compute the watershed transform of the segmentation function. The experimental results point out that this method is an effective segmentation method of lung parenchyma, which lessens the problem of the over-segmentation in the lung image effectively and runs faster.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2808492.2808531
ICIMCS
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaodan Chen132.07
Shouting Feng210.35
Daru Pan3447.24