Pattern-histogram-based temporal change detection using personal chest radiographs

Yucel Ugurlu; Takashi Obi; Akira Hasegawa; Masahiro Yamaguchi; Nagaaki Ohyama

doi:10.1117/12.348525

21 May 1999 Pattern-histogram-based temporal change detection using personal chest radiographs

Yucel Ugurlu, Takashi Obi, Akira Hasegawa, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Nagaaki Ohyama

Proceedings Volume 3661, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.348525
Event: Medical Imaging '99, 1999, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

An accurate and reliable detection of temporal changes from a pair of images has considerable interest in the medical science. Traditional registration and subtraction techniques can be applied to extract temporal differences when,the object is rigid or corresponding points are obvious. However, in radiological imaging, loss of the depth information, the elasticity of object, the absence of clearly defined landmarks and three-dimensional positioning differences constraint the performance of conventional registration techniques. In this paper, we propose a new method in order to detect interval changes accurately without using an image registration technique. The method is based on construction of so-called pattern histogram and comparison procedure. The pattern histogram is a graphic representation of the frequency counts of all allowable patterns in the multi-dimensional pattern vector space. K-means algorithm is employed to partition pattern vector space successively. Any differences in the pattern histograms imply that different patterns are involved in the scenes. In our experiment, a pair of chest radiographs of pneumoconiosis is employed and the changing histogram bins are visualized on both of the images. We found that the method can be used as an alternative way of temporal change detection, particularly when the precise image registration is not available.

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Yucel Ugurlu, Takashi Obi, Akira Hasegawa, Masahiro Yamaguchi, and Nagaaki Ohyama "Pattern-histogram-based temporal change detection using personal chest radiographs", Proc. SPIE 3661, Medical Imaging 1999: Image Processing, (21 May 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.348525

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