ENHANCEMENT OF ULTRASOUND IMAGES USING DENOISING FILTERS AND GENETIC ALGORITHM

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Y. MAHESH ◽  
N. KIRAN KUMAR ◽  
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Author(s):  
BORIS CIGALE ◽  
DAMJAN ZAZULA

Segmentation of ovarian ultrasound images using cellular neural networks (CNNs) is studied in this paper. The segmentation method consists of five successive steps where the first four uses CNNs. In the first step, only rough position of follicles is determined. In the second step, the results are improved by expansion of detected follicles. In the third step, previously undetected inexpressive follicles are determined, while the fourth step detects the position of ovary. All results are joined in the fifth step. The templates for CNNs were obtained by applying genetic algorithm. The segmentation method has been tested on 50 ovarian ultrasound images. The recognition rate of follicles was around 60% and misidentification rate was around 30%.


Polycystic Ovary syndrome is a disorder that many women faces during their reproductive age, due to this they suffer from diabetes, infertility and high blood pressure. Diagnosis of this disorder is mainly done through various types of screenings like ultrasound images. Imaging is the most important factor in the diagnosis, through ultrasound images the follicles generated and cysts formed are easily affected. Although, this is the best method for diagnosis, the main concern is the symptoms shown by this disorder are many times ignored because symptoms like acne, hair loss, and weight gain can also be the causes of some other problem and this leads to the PCOS getting more severe. This paper can be said as a prevention measure or as an alert that one needs to visit hospital for screening. It will help female to recognize the symptoms at early age so that they can take required steps toward the cure. The proposed work is based on the images obtained after ultrasound and how the noises that occur in them can be removed by various methods like data mining, machine learning algorithms. This paper will provide the overview of predicting the disorder using symptoms as parameters through genetic algorithm and back propagation algorithm in neural network. Since, genetic algorithm and back propagation algorithm is known for their accuracy can produce better results


2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (15) ◽  
pp. 4024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shahin Uddin ◽  
Murat Tahtali ◽  
Andrew J. Lambert ◽  
Mark R. Pickering ◽  
Margaret Marchese ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 1281-1285 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Sutton ◽  
D. L. Hunter ◽  
N. Jan

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