Smart Spotting of Pulmonary TB Cavities Using CT Images
Joint Authors
Selvam, L.
Swanly, V. Ezhil
Renjith, J. Arokia
Kumar, P. Mohan
Arunachalam, M.
Shunmuganathan, K. L.
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-12-03
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
One third of the world’s population is thought to have been infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) with new infection occurring at a rate of about one per second.
TB typically attacks the lungs.
Indication of cavities in upper lobes of lungs shows the high infection.
Traditionally, it has been detected manually by physicians.
But the automatic technique proposed in this paper focuses on accurate detection of disease by computed tomography (CT) using computer-aided detection (CAD) system.
The various steps of the detection process include the following: (i) image preprocessing, which is done by techniques such as resizing, masking, and Gaussian smoothening, (ii) image egmentation that is implemented by using mean-shift model and gradient vector flow (GVF) model, (iii) feature extraction that can be achieved by Gradient inverse coefficient of variation and circularity measure, and (iv) classification using Bayesian classifier.
Experimental results show that its perfection of detecting cavities is very accurate in low false positive rate (FPR).
American Psychological Association (APA)
Swanly, V. Ezhil& Selvam, L.& Kumar, P. Mohan& Renjith, J. Arokia& Arunachalam, M.& Shunmuganathan, K. L.. 2013. Smart Spotting of Pulmonary TB Cavities Using CT Images. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-504521
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Swanly, V. Ezhil…[et al.]. Smart Spotting of Pulmonary TB Cavities Using CT Images. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-12.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Swanly, V. Ezhil& Selvam, L.& Kumar, P. Mohan& Renjith, J. Arokia& Arunachalam, M.& Shunmuganathan, K. L.. Smart Spotting of Pulmonary TB Cavities Using CT Images. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-504521
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-504521