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Computer Graphics and Image Processing, XVII Brazilian Symposium on (SIBGRAPI'04)
Segmentation of Clinical Structures from Images of the Human Pelvic Area
Curitiba, PR, Brazil
October 17-October 20
ISBN: 0-7695-2227-0
Juliana Fernandes Camapum, Universidade de Bras?lia, Brasil
Alzenir O. Silva, Universidade de Bras?lia, Brasil
Alan N. Freitas, Universidade de Bras?lia, Brasil
Hansenclever de F. Bassani, Universidade de Bras?lia, Brasil
Fl?via Mendes O. Freitas, Universidade de Bras?lia, Brasil
The radiotherapy treatment planning requires the delineation of the therapy structures that will be submitted to the radiation beams. When executed manually, this delineation is a slow process and can result in human errors due to the amount of X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) images that are analyzed in each radiotherapy planning. This process needs precision, minimizing the radiation on healthy areas, close to the target tissues. A new system for automatic segmentation of images of clinical structures is proposed in this work. The algorithm is based on multi-region growing followed by watershed transform. The main contributions are the method of seed pixels selection and predicate of the multi-region growing algorithm and the segmentation results achieved. The system was tested in 400 images and its efficiency was measured by two different statistical methods, correlation and the t-test. The clinical structures of interest are the rectum, bladder and seminal vesicles.
Citation:
Juliana Fernandes Camapum, Alzenir O. Silva, Alan N. Freitas, Hansenclever de F. Bassani, Fl?via Mendes O. Freitas, "Segmentation of Clinical Structures from Images of the Human Pelvic Area," sibgrapi, pp.10-16, Computer Graphics and Image Processing, XVII Brazilian Symposium on (SIBGRAPI'04), 2004
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