Automated recognition of the psoas major muscles on X-ray CT images.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
; 2009: 3557-60, 2009.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-19963589
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to recognize the psoas major muscle on X-ray CT images. For this purpose, we propose a novel recognition method. The recognition process in this method involves three steps:
the generation of a shape model for the psoas major muscle, recognition of anatomical points such as the origin and insertion, and the recognition of the psoas major muscles by the use of the shape model. We generated the shape model using 20 CT cases and tested the model for recognition in 20 other CT cases. The average Jaccard similarity coefficient (JSC) and reproducibility rate were 0.704 and 0.783, respectively. Experimental results indicate that our method was effective for a 2-D cross-sectional area (CSA) analysis.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pattern Recognition, Automated
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Psoas Muscles
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
Year:
2009
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Japón