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
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