Medical imaging has become the key to access inside human body for the
purpose of diagnosis and treatment planning. In order to understand the
effectiveness of planned treatment following the diagnosis, treated body part may
have to be monitored several times during a period of time. Information gained
from successive imaging of body part provides guidance to next step of treatment.
Comparison of images or datasets taken at different times requires registration of
these images or datasets since the same conditions may not be provided at all
times. Accurate segmentation of the body part under treatment is needed while
comparing medical images to achieve quantitative and qualitative measurements.
This segmentation task enables two dimensional and three dimensional
visualizations of the region which also aid in directing the planning strategy.
In this thesis, several segmentation algorithms are investigated and a hybrid
segmentation algorithm is developed in order to segment bone tissue out of head
CT slices for orthodontic treatment planning. Using the developed segmentation algorithm, three dimensional visualizations of segmented bone tissue out of head
CT slices of two patients are obtained. Visualizations are obtained using the
MATLAB Computer software& / #8217 / s visualization library.
Besides these, methods are developed for automatic registration of twodimensional
and three-dimensional CT images taken at different time periods.
These methods are applied to real and synthetic data. Algorithms and methods
used in this thesis are also implemented in MATLAB computer program.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1093368/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2003 |
| Creators | Tuncer, Ozgur |
| Contributors | Severcan, Mete |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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