In the field of medical image processing, one of the cur- rent interests is the automatic segmentation of abdominal CT images, which is the first and fundamental step both be- fore any automatic pathology detection and to compute the 3D abdominal organ volumes. In this paper we propose our fully automatic system that segments liver and its blood ves- sels, kidneys, spleen, ribs and spine. The overall system has been evaluated on the data of 40 patients, obtaining a good assessment both by visual inspection by three experts, and by comparing the computed results to the manually traced boundaries.
Citation:
Paola Campadelli, Elena Casiraghi, Stella Pratissoli, "Automatic Segmentation of Abdominal Organs from CT Scans," ictai, vol. 1, pp.513-516, 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence - Vol.1 (ICTAI 2007), 2007