Medical diagnosis imaging systems: image and signal processing applications aided by fuzzy logic

Yutaka Hata

doi:10.1117/12.855410

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12 April 2010 Medical diagnosis imaging systems: image and signal processing applications aided by fuzzy logic

Yutaka Hata

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Proceedings Volume 7703, Independent Component Analyses, Wavelets, Neural Networks, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering VIII; 77030Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855410
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

First, we describe an automated procedure for segmenting an MR image of a human brain based on fuzzy logic for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. The intensity thresholds for segmenting the whole brain of a subject are automatically determined by finding the peaks of the intensity histogram. After these thresholds are evaluated in a region growing, the whole brain can be identified. Next, we describe a procedure for decomposing the obtained whole brain into the left and right cerebral hemispheres, the cerebellum and the brain stem. Our method then identified the whole brain, the left cerebral hemisphere, the right cerebral hemisphere, the cerebellum and the brain stem. Secondly, we describe a transskull sonography system that can visualize the shape of the skull and brain surface from any point to examine skull fracture and some brain diseases. We employ fuzzy signal processing to determine the skull and brain surface. The phantom model, the animal model with soft tissue, the animal model with brain tissue, and a human subjects' forehead is applied in our system. The all shapes of the skin surface, skull surface, skull bottom, and brain tissue surface are successfully determined.

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Yutaka Hata "Medical diagnosis imaging systems: image and signal processing applications aided by fuzzy logic", Proc. SPIE 7703, Independent Component Analyses, Wavelets, Neural Networks, Biosystems, and Nanoengineering VIII, 77030Q (12 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855410

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