Automatic liver segmentation in CT images based on support vector machine

  • Jie Lu*
  • , Defeng Wang
  • , Lin Shi
  • , Pheng Ann Heng
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Accurate and fully automated segmentation of liver parenchyma in medical images is necessary prerequisites for a variety of clinical and research applications, such as constructing three dimension anatomical model. In this paper, an automatic liver segmentation method based on Support Vector Machines (SVM) has been proposed. Segmentation is started by wavelet transform for image feature extraction. Subsequently, SVM is applied on the feature vectors for training and testing to realize pixel classification. Finally, region-growing is used to refine the result of SVM. Experiments have been conducted on different training-test partitions of the CT image datasets. Compared to manual segmentation provided by medical experts, our experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics
Subtitle of host publicationGlobal Grand Challenge of Health Informatics, BHI 2012
Pages333-336
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2012. In Conj. with the 8th Int. Symp.on Medical Devices and Biosensors and the 7th Int. Symp. on Biomedical and Health Engineering - Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China
Duration: 2 Jan 20127 Jan 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics: Global Grand Challenge of Health Informatics, BHI 2012

Conference

ConferenceIEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2012. In Conj. with the 8th Int. Symp.on Medical Devices and Biosensors and the 7th Int. Symp. on Biomedical and Health Engineering
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong and Shenzhen
Period2/01/127/01/12

Keywords

  • Liver segmentation
  • machine learning
  • support vector machine

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