Development of a Model for use in Medical Image Interpretation
M. G. Cawley, Kal Natarajan · 1989
We present here progress on the Alvey MMI/134 project "Model based processing of radiological images". The radiological images we are dealing with are X-ray CT and NMR images of the head. Radiological interpretation of medical images obtained from any imaging modality, for example X-ray CT, relies on the fact that normal anatomy is predictable with respect to certain landmarks. The radiologist can then take into account variation between normal individuals and the effect of the imaging modality to create a flexible framework with fixed reference points to work from. We describe here a symbolic frame-based method of modelling 3D anatomy which allows 2D representations to be derived. This slice-wise representation is compatible with both the radiologist's view during interpretation and