Developing an Intelligent Automatic Appendix Extraction Method from Ultrasonography Based on Fuzzy ART and Image Processing
Joint Authors
Kim, Kwang Baek
Park, Hyun Jun
Song, Doo Heon
Han, Sang-suk
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-05-18
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Ultrasound examination (US) does a key role in the diagnosis and management of the patients with clinically suspected appendicitis which is the most common abdominal surgical emergency.
Among the various sonographic findings of appendicitis, outer diameter of the appendix is most important.
Therefore, clear delineation of the appendix on US images is essential.
In this paper, we propose a new intelligent method to extract appendix automatically from abdominal sonographic images as a basic building block of developing such an intelligent tool for medical practitioners.
Knowing that the appendix is located at the lower organ area below the bottom fascia line, we conduct a series of image processing techniques to find the fascia line correctly.
And then we apply fuzzy ART learning algorithm to the organ area in order to extract appendix accurately.
The experiment verifies that the proposed method is highly accurate (successful in 38 out of 40 cases) in extracting appendix.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kim, Kwang Baek& Park, Hyun Jun& Song, Doo Heon& Han, Sang-suk. 2015. Developing an Intelligent Automatic Appendix Extraction Method from Ultrasonography Based on Fuzzy ART and Image Processing. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057884
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kim, Kwang Baek…[et al.]. Developing an Intelligent Automatic Appendix Extraction Method from Ultrasonography Based on Fuzzy ART and Image Processing. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057884
American Medical Association (AMA)
Kim, Kwang Baek& Park, Hyun Jun& Song, Doo Heon& Han, Sang-suk. Developing an Intelligent Automatic Appendix Extraction Method from Ultrasonography Based on Fuzzy ART and Image Processing. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057884
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1057884