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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2014.18.3.670

Suspectible Object Detection Method for Radiographic Images  

Kim, Gi-Tae (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chungbuk National University)
Kang, Hyun-Soo (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chungbuk National University)
Abstract
This paper presents a method to extract objects in radiographic images where all the allowable combinations of segmented regions are compared to a target object using Fourier descriptor. In the object extraction for usual images, a main problem is occlusion. In radiographic images, there is an advantage that the shape of an object is not occluded by other objects. It is because radiographic images represent the amount of radiation penetrated through objects. Considering the property of no occlusion in radiographic images, the shape based descriptors can be very effective to find objects. After all, the proposed object extraction method consists of three steps of segmenting regions, finding all the combinations of the segmented regions, and matching the combinations to the shape of the target object. In finding the combinations, we reduce a lot of computations to remove unnecessary combinations before matching. In matching, we employ Fourier descriptor so that the proposed method is rotation and shift invariant. Additionally, shape normalization is adopted to be scale invariant. By experiments, we verify that the proposed method works well in extracting objects.
Keywords
Fourier Descriptor; Watershed; Object Recognition; Shape Descriptor;
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