Towards predictive diagnosis and management of rotator cuff disease: using curvelet transform for edge detection and segmentation of tissue

Vipul Pai Raikar; David M. Kwartowitz

doi:10.1117/12.2217125

1 April 2016 Towards predictive diagnosis and management of rotator cuff disease: using curvelet transform for edge detection and segmentation of tissue

Vipul Pai Raikar, David M. Kwartowitz

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Proceedings Volume 9790, Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography; 97901P (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217125
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Degradation and injury of the rotator cuff is one of the most common diseases of the shoulder among the general population. In orthopedic injuries, rotator cuff disease is only second to back pain in terms of overall reduced quality of life for patients. Clinically, this disease is managed via pain and activity assessment and diagnostic imaging using ultrasound and MRI. Ultrasound has been shown to have good accuracy for identification and measurement of rotator cuff tears. In our previous work, we have developed novel, real-time techniques to biomechanically assess the condition of the rotator cuff based on Musculoskeletal Ultrasound. Of the rotator cuff tissues, supraspinatus is the first that sees degradation and is the most commonly affected. In our work, one of the challenges lies in effectively segmenting and characterizing the supraspinatus. We are exploring the possibility of using curvelet transform for improving techniques to segment tissue in ultrasound. Curvelets have been shown to give optimal multi-scale representation of edges in images. They are designed to represent edges and singularities along curves in images which makes them an attractive proposition for use in ultrasound segmentation. In this work, we present a novel approach to the possibility of using curvelet transforms for automatic edge and feature extraction for the supraspinatus.

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Vipul Pai Raikar and David M. Kwartowitz "Towards predictive diagnosis and management of rotator cuff disease: using curvelet transform for edge detection and segmentation of tissue", Proc. SPIE 9790, Medical Imaging 2016: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, 97901P (1 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217125

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