Analysis, 3D Reconstruction and Anatomical Feature Extraction from Medical Images

Author(s):  
Jan Barabas ◽  
Branko Babusiak ◽  
Michal Gala ◽  
Roman Radil ◽  
Martin Capka
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachana Jaiswal ◽  
Srikant Satarkar

In medical imaging, accurate anatomical structure extraction is important for diagnosis and therapeutic interventional planning. So, for easier, quicker and accurate diagnosis of medical images, image processing technologies may be employed in analysis and feature extraction of medical images. In this paper, some modifications to level set algorithm are made and modified algorithm is used for extracting contour of foetal objects in an image. The proposed approach is applied on foetal ultrasound images. In traditional approach, foetal parameters are extracted manually from ultrasound images. Due to lack of consistency and accuracy of manual measurements, an automatic technique is highly desirable to obtain foetal biometric measurements. This proposed approach is based on global & local region information for foetal contour extraction from ultrasonic images. The primary goal of this research is to provide a new methodology to aid the analysis and feature extraction from foetal images.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago González Izard ◽  
Ramiro Sánchez Torres ◽  
Óscar Alonso Plaza ◽  
Juan Antonio Juanes Méndez ◽  
Francisco José García-Peñalvo

The visualization of medical images with advanced techniques, such as augmented reality and virtual reality, represent a breakthrough for medical professionals. In contrast to more traditional visualization tools lacking 3D capabilities, these systems use the three available dimensions. To visualize medical images in 3D, the anatomical areas of interest must be segmented. Currently, manual segmentation, which is the most commonly used technique, and semi-automatic approaches can be time consuming because a doctor is required, making segmentation for each individual case unfeasible. Using new technologies, such as computer vision and artificial intelligence for segmentation algorithms and augmented and virtual reality for visualization techniques implementation, we designed a complete platform to solve this problem and allow medical professionals to work more frequently with anatomical 3D models obtained from medical imaging. As a result, the Nextmed project, due to the different implemented software applications, permits the importation of digital imaging and communication on medicine (dicom) images on a secure cloud platform and the automatic segmentation of certain anatomical structures with new algorithms that improve upon the current research results. A 3D mesh of the segmented structure is then automatically generated that can be printed in 3D or visualized using both augmented and virtual reality, with the designed software systems. The Nextmed project is unique, as it covers the whole process from uploading dicom images to automatic segmentation, 3D reconstruction, 3D visualization, and manipulation using augmented and virtual reality. There are many researches about application of augmented and virtual reality for medical image 3D visualization; however, they are not automated platforms. Although some other anatomical structures can be studied, we focused on one case: a lung study. Analyzing the application of the platform to more than 1000 dicom images and studying the results with medical specialists, we concluded that the installation of this system in hospitals would provide a considerable improvement as a tool for medical image visualization.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Teng ◽  
Hang Li ◽  
Shahid Karim

Medical image segmentation is one of the hot issues in the related area of image processing. Precise segmentation for medical images is a vital guarantee for follow-up treatment. At present, however, low gray contrast and blurred tissue boundaries are common in medical images, and the segmentation accuracy of medical images cannot be effectively improved. Especially, deep learning methods need more training samples, which lead to time-consuming process. Therefore, we propose a novelty model for medical image segmentation based on deep multiscale convolutional neural network (CNN) in this article. First, we extract the region of interest from the raw medical images. Then, data augmentation is operated to acquire more training datasets. Our proposed method contains three models: encoder, U-net, and decoder. Encoder is mainly responsible for feature extraction of 2D image slice. The U-net cascades the features of each block of the encoder with those obtained by deconvolution in the decoder under different scales. The decoding is mainly responsible for the upsampling of the feature graph after feature extraction of each group. Simulation results show that the new method can boost the segmentation accuracy. And, it has strong robustness compared with other segmentation methods.


2012 ◽  
Vol 263-266 ◽  
pp. 1614-1618
Author(s):  
Xiang Hua Chen ◽  
Juan Zhou

It is an efficient way to represent three-dimensional objects by octree.The traditional structure of pointer -based octree representation has several shortcomings,such as requiring large memory,missing relationship between two nodes,etc.Based on analyzing the space Iayout and the configuration of octree,this paper presents an improved octree for 3D representation.From the experimental results for 3D reconstruction of medical images,we can see the proposed method is superior to the traditional method in terms of the storing structure and visiting way,etc.


2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Linh Duy Tran ◽  
Linh Quang Huynh

Along with the rapid development of diagnostic imaging equipment, software for medical image processing has played an important role in helping doctors and clinicians to reach accurate diagnoses. In this paper, methods to build a multipurpose tool based on Matlab programming language and its applications are presented. This new tool features enhancement, segmentation, registration and 3D reconstruction for medical images obtained from commonly used diagnostic imaging equipment.


Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Tianming Song ◽  
Xiaoyang Yu ◽  
Shuang Yu ◽  
Zhe Ren ◽  
Yawei Qu

Medical image technology is becoming more and more important in the medical field. It not only provides important information about internal organs of the body for clinical analysis and medical treatment but also assists doctors in diagnosing and treating various diseases. However, in the process of medical image feature extraction, there are some problems, such as inconspicuous feature extraction and low feature preparation rate. Combined with the learning idea of convolution neural network, the image multifeature vectors are quantized in a deeper level, which makes the image features further abstract and not only makes up for the one-sidedness of single feature description but also improves the robustness of feature descriptors. This paper presents a medical image processing method based on multifeature fusion, which has high feature extraction effect on medical images of chest, lung, brain and liver, and can better express the feature relationship of medical images. Experimental results show that the accuracy of the proposed method is more than 5% higher than that of other methods, which shows that the performance of the proposed method is better.


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