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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2015.19.6.1296

Extracting Ganglion Cysts from Ultrasound Image with Fuzzy Membership Function  

Kim, Kwang Baek (Department of Computer & Information Engineering, Silla University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.19, no.6, 2015 , pp. 1296-1300 More about this Journal
Abstract
Ganglion cysts are commonly observed cystic tumor in association with the joints and tendons of the appendicular skeleton. In this paper we propose a method to extract ganglion cysts from ultrasound images with intelligent image processing. The method consists of fuzzy stretching preprocessing to enhance the contrast between related organs and 8-directional contour tracking to model the boundaries of the cysts and labelling procedure to compute the size of cysts. In experiment, we verified that the proposed method extracts ganglion cysts accurately from ultrasound images.
Keywords
Ganglion Cysts; Fuzzy Stretching; 8-directional Contour Tracking;
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