Abstract
The experimental study presented in this paper is aimed at the development of an automatic image segmentation system for classifying region of interest (ROI) in medical images which are obtained from different medical scanners such as PET, CT, or MRI. Multiresolution analysis (MRA) using wavelet, ridgelet, and curvelet transforms has been used in the proposed segmentation system. It is particularly a challenging task to classify cancers in human organs in scanners output using shape or gray-level information; organs shape changes throw different slices in medical stack and the gray-level intensity overlap in soft tissues. Curvelet transform is a new extension of wavelet and ridgelet transforms which aims to deal with interesting phenomena occurring along curves. Curvelet transforms has been tested on medical data sets, and results are compared with those obtained from the other transforms. Tests indicate that using curvelet significantly improves the classification of abnormal tissues in the scans and reduce the surrounding noise.
Highlights
In the last decade, the use of 3D image processing has been increased especially for medical applications; this leads to increase the qualified radiologists’ number who navigate, view, analyse, segment, and interpret medical images
Proposed Medical Image Segmentation System The main aim of this research is to facilitate the process of highlighting region of interest (ROI) in medical images, which may be encapsulated within other objects or surrounded by noise that make the segmentation process not easy
Due to the changing shapes of organs in medical images, segmentation process using multiresolution analysis combined with thresholding as pre- and postprocessing step allows accurate detection of ROIs
Summary
The use of 3D image processing has been increased especially for medical applications; this leads to increase the qualified radiologists’ number who navigate, view, analyse, segment, and interpret medical images. The analysis and visualization of the image stack received from the acquisition devices are difficult to evaluate due to the quantity of clinical data and the amount of noise existing in medical images due to the scanners itself. Computerized analysis and automated information systems can offer help dealing with the large amounts of data, and new image processing techniques may help to denoise those images. Multiresolution analysis (MRA) [1,2,3] has been successfully used in image processing specially with image segmentation, wavelet-based features has been used in various applications including image compression [4], denoising [5], and classification [6]. Medical image segmentation aims to separate known anatomical structures from the background such cancer diagnosis, quantification of tissue volumes, radiotherapy treatment planning, and study of anatomical structures
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