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Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Liver Cirrhosis using Wave Pattern of Spleen in Abdominal CT Imaging  

Seong Won (한국과학기술원 정보전자연구소)
Cho June-Sik (충남대학교 의과대학 영상의학과)
Noh Seung-Moo (충남대학교 의과대학 일반외과)
Park Jong-Won (충남대학교 정보통신공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.32, no.6, 2005 , pp. 532-541 More about this Journal
Abstract
We examined the wave pattern of the spleen by using abdominal CT images of a patient with liver cirrhosis, and found that they are different from those of a person with a normal liver. In the abdominal CT image of the patient with liver cirrhosis, there is a deep wave part on the left side of the spleen. In the case of the normal liver, there are waves on the left side, but they aren't deep. Therefore, the total area of waving parts of the spleen with liver cirrhosis is found to be greater than that of the spleen with the normal liver. Moreover, when examining circularity by abstracting the waves of the spleen from the image with liver cirrhosis, we found they are more circular than those of the spleen accompanied by a normal liver. This paper suggests an automatic method to diagnose liver cirrhosis by using the wave pattern of the spleen in abdominal CT images on the basis of the two principles. It tells us that we can judge if the liver has liver cirrhosis automatically, without the manual test of the ratio of caudate lobe to right lobe, only with the spleen.
Keywords
abdominal CT images; abnormal liver; computer-aided diagnosis; liver cirrhosis; Spleen;
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