Automatic Detection of Airways in CT Scans of Cystic Fibrosis Patients - Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering

JBiSE > Vol.9 No.10, September 2016

Automatic Detection of Airways in CT Scans of Cystic Fibrosis Patients ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jbise.2016.910B020 1,547 Downloads 2,559 Views

Author(s)

T. Chaudhuri^*, B. Gong, S. Krueger-Ziolek, B. Schullcke, K. Moeller

Affiliation(s)

Institute of Technical Medicine, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.

ABSTRACT

This paper describes a prototype of an automatic system for the detection and evalua-tion of airways of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) patients from Computed Tomography (CT) Scans. The aim of the study is to present a prototype of an automatic system which could serve as a decision support for radiologists. The area percentages of airway in lung regions have been calculated in CT slices to represent Bronchiectasis stages of CF patients. The proposed automatic system has been tested on a dataset comprising of four CF patients belonging to different stages of Bronchiectasis.

KEYWORDS

Cystic Fibrosis, Computed Tomography, Lung Segmentation, 2D Airway Segmentation

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Chaudhuri, T. , Gong, B. , Krueger-Ziolek, S. , Schullcke, B. and Moeller, K. (2016) Automatic Detection of Airways in CT Scans of Cystic Fibrosis Patients. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 9, 155-160. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2016.910B020.

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