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Objectives/Problem setting

Problem
Extract the kidney in an ultrasound image input: image shown below output: binary image with the kidney as the foreground

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State of the Art

Segmentation Techniques

Segmentation techniques are classied as: Histogram based techniques Cluster techniques Graph techniques Edge based techniques Region based techniques

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State of the Art

Segmentation Techniques

For kidney segmentation Histogram based techniques Cluster techniques Graph techniques Edge based techniques Region based techniques Other methods use Markov elds [1], level set evolution [2] and texture and shape recognition [3]

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Method/Implementation

Method

Method

The method used in the present work is: 1 For Preprocessing:

contrast enhancement median lter closing
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For Processing:
region growing morphological operations active contours

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Method/Implementation

Script

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Results

Preprocessing

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Results

Processing

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Results

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Discussion

Discussion
Aspects related to the image: Low contrast image, high noise Borders not clearly dened High intensity regions inside the kidney Advantages of the method: Accurate segmentation is possible The process can be repeated to improve the result Disadvantages of the method/processing: The contrast enhancement threshold values are not clearly dened The accuracy of the result depends on the region used as seed in the rst step Making convex regions (lling) can lead to misregistration

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References

References

M. Martin-Fernandez and C. Alberola-Lopez. An approach for contour detection of human kidneys from ultrasound images using markov random elds and active contours. Medical Image Analysis, 9(1):123, 2005. Fan Yang, Wenjian Qin, Yaoqin Xie, Tiexiang Wen, and Jia Gu. A shape-optimized framework for kidney segmentation in ultrasound images using nltv denoising and drlse. BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 11(1):113, 2012. Jun Xie, Yifeng Jiang, and Hung-Tat Tsui. Segmentation of kidney from ultrasound images based on texture and shape priors. Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on, 24(1):4557, Jan 2005.

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Questions