As computer technologies are developed rapidly in recent years, the ways to diagnose diseases also alter in clinical practice. Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) is an example that makes the diagnostic way for medical images change from view box to monitor. All types of medical images tend to be digitized and this makes it practical for helping doctor diagnose medical images via computer technologies. In this thesis, we propose a systemic approach to screen abnormalities in chest radiographs. First, a preprocess step identifying the view of chest radiographs is introduced. Second, a method is proposed for automated detection of gross abnormal opacity in chest radiographs. Third, computation time reduction is performed by subsampling. Finally, a computer-aided diagnosis system is implemented and evaluated in a clinical environment. Major technique used in this thesis is to analyze the projection profile obtained by projecting a chest image on to the mediolateral axis. The discriminant performance for each method is evaluated by using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. The results indicate that the proposed methods are potentially useful for screening abnormalities in chest radiographs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0725106-233141 |
| Date | 25 July 2006 |
| Creators | Kao, E-Fong |
| Contributors | Chungnan Lee, Jin-Jang Leou, Kuo-Sheng Cheng, Yung-Nien Sun, Lih-Shyang Chen, Twei-Shiun Jaw, Gin-Chung Liu |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0725106-233141 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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