Automatic delineation of ribs in frontal chest radiographs

Bram van Ginneken; Bart M. ter Haar Romeny

doi:10.1117/12.387746

6 June 2000 Automatic delineation of ribs in frontal chest radiographs

Bram van Ginneken, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny

Proceedings Volume 3979, Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387746
Event: Medical Imaging 2000, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

An automatic method for the delineation of posterior ribs in frontal chest radiographs is presented. We develop a statistical shape model for the complete rib cage. Contrary to previous work, we fit the global rib cage directly to a radiograph, instead of detecting rib border candidates locally and applying rules to infer the rib cage from these candidates. Each posterior rib is modeled by two parallel parabolas. The full rib cage, from rib 2 up and including rib 10, therefore contains 72 parameters. This number is reduced with principal component analysis: It is demonstrated that 10 parameters explain over 98% of the variability in a training set of 35 chest radiographs. The rib cage is fitted with Powell's direction set method for optimizing the model parameters, with a fit measure that gives high output when rib borders are located on edge pixels in the image. The method is robust and fairly accurate: On the 35 test images with a resolution of 512 by 512 pixels, rib borders are located with an accuracy of 3 pixels on average.

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Bram van Ginneken and Bart M. ter Haar Romeny "Automatic delineation of ribs in frontal chest radiographs", Proc. SPIE 3979, Medical Imaging 2000: Image Processing, (6 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.387746

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