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http://dx.doi.org/10.9708/jksci.2014.19.6.011

Extracting Muscle Area with ART2 based Quantization from Rehabilitative Ultrasound Images  

Kim, Kwang-Baek (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Silla University)
Abstract
While safe and convenient, ultrasound imaging analysis is often criticized by its subjective decision making nature by field experts in analyzing musculoskeletal system. In this paper, we propose a new automatic method to extract muscle area using ART2 neural network based quantization. A series of image processing algorithms such as histogram smoothing and End-in search stretching are applied in pre-processing phase to remove noises effectively. Muscle areas are extracted by considering various morphological features and corresponding analysis. In experiment, our ART2 based Quantization is verified as more effective than other general quantization methods.
Keywords
ART2 Neural Network; Quantization; Ultrasound image; Fasica; Ends-in search;
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