Automatic Cobb angle measurement system by using nuclear medicine whole body bone scan

Jia Yann Huang; Pan Fu Kao; Yung Sheng Chen

Automatic Cobb angle measurement system by using nuclear medicine whole body bone scan

Jia Yann Huang^*, Pan Fu Kao, Yung Sheng Chen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Evaluation of scoliosis is performed traditionally by means of standing posterior-anterior radiographs of the full spine to assess lateral curvature with the Cobb method. In this paper, we present a new automatic algorithm to measure Cobb angle by using nuclear medicine whole body bone scan images. Our algorithm design is based on the fuzzy sets histogram thresholding, anatomical knowledge-based image segmentation method, and morphology technology. It is expected that the results may help physicians to diagnose scoliosis via the scintigraphy images, and thus to reduce radiation done to patients.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2007
Pages	57-60
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 2007
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2007 - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 16 05 2007 → 18 05 2007

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Conference	10th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2007
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Period	16/05/07 → 18/05/07

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Huang, JY, Kao, PF & Chen, YS 2007, Automatic Cobb angle measurement system by using nuclear medicine whole body bone scan. in Proceedings of IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2007. Proceedings of IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2007, pp. 57-60, 10th IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2007, Tokyo, Japan, 16/05/07.

Automatic Cobb angle measurement system by using nuclear medicine whole body bone scan. / Huang, Jia Yann; Kao, Pan Fu; Chen, Yung Sheng.
Proceedings of IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2007. 2007. p. 57-60 (Proceedings of IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, MVA 2007).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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