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Segmentation and Interpretation of Solid Lesions

in Ct Using Volume Estimation and Classification
Janani.B1, Mr.B.S.Sathishkumar2
M.E student, Department of ECE, A.V.C.College of Engineering, Mannampandal, Tamilnadu1
Associate Professor, Department of ECE, A.V.C.College of Engineering, Mannampandal, Tamilnadu 2
Abstract: In medical application, the change of tumors size is an important issue for monitoring the cancer therapeutics.
Estimating the volume of a tumor need its description in 3-D which is called segmentation. This system used to find the
tumor area on the captured liver image which has been collecting from the ct scan report. Here region-based segmentation
technique is used to extract the images into homogeneous segments or regions to ease the analysis of image. Although,
simply calculating the voxels within a segmentation result can show to ample changes in the volume, if the lesion has been
segmented delicate differently by various segmentation technique or different scan. In this system gives a fast, generic
algorithm for calculating the volume of tumor from ct scan image that regards partial volume correction at the edge of a
segmentation result. It can be applied to homogeneous lesions and inhomogeneous lesions. In 3-D image, due to limited
spatial resolution some voxels will loss at the border of the segmentation output, to overcome these problem pvc is used.
Finally these algorithms provide a more accurate estimation of tumor volume.
Keywords: CT, partial volume correction, segmentation, spatial subdivision, lesion.
single intensity and background regions with different
intensities. In this method, tumor size is being calculated by
An oncology is a subordinate of medicine that deals
the diameter of the lesion. Estimated the value only for
with tumor. An oncology is related with therapy, diagnosis
homogeneous lesions. There is no measurement about
of any tumor and monitoring of tumor patients after
accurate value of lesions volume.
successful treatment. some of the technique are commonly
used to diagnosis tumor such as X-RAY/MRI. In these
B. Limitations
systemic scan is used which takes several x-ray images a lot
The main problem of threshold based approach is
from different angle and to form 3-D.It provide more
that they often lack the responsiveness and precision
detailed view than others and also determine how much
required for accurate classification. The problem gets rigid
tumor affected nearby tissue. If the tumor size are shrink and
in case of multi-modal histograms with no edged or wellalso no new arise, therapy is successful. A voxel couting
defined boundaries. It is usually hard to define the practical
defines the volume which is given by the number of all
and numerical measures only on the basis of gray level
voxels within the output of segmentation then multiplied by
value.
their volume.
II. PROPOSED SYSTEM
A. Existing System
In these proposed system, segmentation based
In this existing system, volumetric CT scanning
region approach and spatial subdivision which is used to
using spiral or helical scanners has resulted in a revolution
overcome the limitation of thresholding approach. From this
for diagnostic imaging. In addition for future CT
subdivision we extract all information that is necessary for
applications, such as the detection of liver lesios have
compensating the partial volume artifacts.
substantially improved. In other words the isotropic 3-D
voxel could not be analysed apart from some very
specialized cases. Multi level thresholding through a
numerical repeated algorithm.
The aspiration of thresholding is to selection those
pixels from some image. Thus the objective of binarization
is to mark pixels that belong to beginning regions with
I.

INTRODUCTION

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Finallly the result of the segmentation-based region

approach is used to select the similarity pixels
within the segmented image.

B. Spatial Subdivision
Spatial subdivision which is the process of
separating area into two or more uncoordinated subsets. A
space is separated into several area and then the same space
partitioning system is recursively given to each of the area
thus created. Here quadtree decomposition divides a square
image into four equal sized square blocks and then tests each
block to see if it meets some criteria of congruity. If a block
meets the rule it is not separated any further. If it does not
meet the rule it is subdivided again into four blocks and the
test criterion is applied to those blocks. This process is
repeated iteratively until each block meet the rule.
Fig.1 Process Diagram of Volume Estimation

C. Partial Volume Correction

A. Region-Based Segmentation
In the region approach, each pixel is assigned to a
particular part. choose the seed points. If the approximate
pixels of the initial seed points are severe the rule such as
intensity, gray level. we use the rule of the same pixel value
then check the adjacent pixels of the intial seed points. If
their pixel values are uniform with seed points, they can be
added to the seed points. It is stop until there is no change in
two consecutive iterations. The basic idea of region splitting
is to break the image into a set of disarrange regions, which
are consistent within themselves.
Look at the area of interest and decide if all pixels
contained in the region amuse some similarity
constraint.
Initially take the image as a total to be the area of
interest.
If true then the area of interest corresponds to an
entire region in the image.
If false split the area of interest (usually into four
equal subareas) and consider each of the subareas
as the area of interest in turn.
.This process continues until no further splitting
occurs.
If only a splitting is used then the final
segmentation would probably contain many
adjacent regions that have identical or similar
properties. we need to merge these regions
If the adjacent regions satisfy the similarity
properties, we will merge them.

It is mainly used to improve the accuracy and

reproducibility of volumetric measurements for tumor in CT.
Due to restricted spatial resolution, some voxels will loss at
the edge of the segmentation result to overcome these
problem partial volume correction is used. To calculate the
part of each partial volume voxel that is part of the lesion.
For each voxel ,a volume is estimated by a linear
combination of the allusion value of the connected with
inner and outer tissue region of specific segment. For
example, some cases with no difference between the lesion
and its background the partial volume region has resemble
values as the suitable tissue region. A small lesions, consider
that the lesion made up of a single tissue region only. The
average lesion value l as reference value in the place of the
inner tissue reference value

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IV. CONCLUSION
Estimating the volume of a tumor from CT image
which is based on a region-based segmentation
technique.PVC plays an important role for estimating a
volume of lesion accurately and reproducibly. In these
segmentation based partial volume correction which allows
for improving the accuracy of volume estimation and the
variation between the readers are reduced, and it give more
reproducible volume estimation for liver metastases.pvc
which is used for estimating the voxel at the edge of the
segmentation result without missing a single voxel. To
estimated the volume of tumor and also find whether the
lesions are getting grow or shrink by using chemotheraphy
in medical application.
V. FUTURE WORK
To perform the features of tumor, which is an input
of classifier by using neural network? According to rules,
classifier which divides the features of tumor and it
produces an output data. Finally an output data is compared
with the collection of tumor dataset. With relevant
information it is feasible to create such information comes
in accessible during the time of surgical planning specially
for sensitive areas as the Human Brain or the Spinal Cord.

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BIOGRAPHY

JANANI.B completed her B.E degree

Instrumentation and Control Engineering
from Anna University Chennai. Presently
she doing M.E(Applied Electronics)in
A.V.C.college of engineering. Her area of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
interests in medical image processing,
I extend my sincere thanks to Mr.B.S.Sathish process control and virtual instrumentation.
kumar for their innovative ideas and suggestions throughout
my project and the successful completion of project.
Mr.Sathish Kumar doing his Ph.D
degree in Pondicherry University. He
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