Towards segmentation of pedicles on posteroanterior x-ray views of scoliotic patients
ICIAR'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
Pairwise FCM based feature weighting for improved classification of vertebral column disorders
Computers in Biology and Medicine
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Existing computer-based spinal stenosis diagnosis systems are not fully automatic. Their performance depends on the knowledge and experience of the user. Such a system is typically intended for specialists such as radiologists. We present in this paper a fully automatic system, more suitable for general practitioners for use in screening and initial diagnosis. To evaluate the performance of the proposed techniques, we build a system prototype with two environments -one for managing training images and building the classifiers, and the other environment for diagnosis use in practice. Our experimental results, based on an X-ray image database NHANES II available from the National Library of Medicine, indicates that the proposed system is effective for screening purpos