Document Type

Article

Original Publication Date

2012

Journal/Book/Conference Title

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volume

2012

Issue

Article ID 327198, 10 pages

DOI of Original Publication

10.1155/2012/327198

Comments

Originally published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/327198.

Date of Submission

August 2014

Abstract

Fracture detection in pelvic bones is vital for patient diagnostic decisions and treatment planning in traumatic pelvic injuries. Manual detection of bone fracture from computed tomography (CT) images is very challenging due to low resolution of the images and the complex pelvic structures. Automated fracture detection from segmented bones can significantly help physicians analyze pelvic CT images and detect the severity of injuries in a very short period. This paper presents an automated hierarchical algorithm for bone fracture detection in pelvic CT scans using adaptive windowing, boundary tracing, and wavelet transform while incorporating anatomical information. Fracture detection is performed on the basis of the results of prior pelvic bone segmentation via our registered active shape model (RASM). The results are promising and show that the method is capable of detecting fractures accurately.

Rights

Copyright © 2012 Jie Wu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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VCU Computer Science Publications

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