The concept of image processing algorithms for assessment and diagnosis of hydrocephalus in children
Tomasz Węgliński, Anna Fabijańska · Proceedings of Electrotechnical Institute · 2011
This paper presents a concept of image processing and analysis algorithms for an automatic assessment of hydrocephalus in children’s brain. Presented research was inspired by the medical need for tools performing an automatic (or at least semi-automatic) detection and quantitative evaluation of this lesion. Algorithms for precise segmentation of hydrocephalus and determination of its volume from three dimensional CT brain scans were introduced. Specifically, for brain and hydrocephalus segmentation, region growing approach was proposed. Results of applying the developed method to real CT data sets were presented and discussed. The analysis of the results show that in future, the proposed algorithms can be helpful tool for diagnosis of hydrocephalus.