Abstract
Background: Computer-aided detection/diagnosis (CAD) of lung nodules is a practical approach to improve the relative survival of lung cancer patients. Pulmonary parenchyma segmentation is an essential part of the CAD systems for detecting lung cancer. Methods: To solve
the problems of improper segmentation and incomplete repair with the traditional rolling-ball method (RBM), we proposed a novel method with a multi-scale rolling-ball for pulmonary parenchyma segmentation. The traditional RBM suffers from the problem that there is often a mismatch between
the rolling-ball radius and the size of the boundary defect. Additionally, the shapes of the rolling-ball and lung parenchyma are mismatched, which results in incomplete restoration of the boundary of lung parenchyma. Therefore, to address these issues, a novel multi-scale elliptic RBM (ME-RBM)
is proposed for pulmonary parenchyma segmentation in this work. Results: The proposed approach was used to segment the lung parenchyma in 60 computed tomography (CT) images. The results revealed an area overlap measure (AOM) of 96.34%, dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 97.83% and
sensitivity (Sens) of 98.93%. Conclusion: A novel modified rolling-ball method was proposed and developed in this work for pulmonary parenchyma segmentation on chest CT images. The experimental results showed that the proposed approach was accurate and reliable.
Publisher
American Scientific Publishers
Subject
Health Informatics,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
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4 articles.
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