Fracture Detection in Traumatic Pelvic CT Images

Fracture detection in pelvic bones is vital for patient diagnostic decisions and treatment planning in traumatic pelvic injuries. Manual detection of bone fracture from computed tomography (CT) images is very challenging due to low resolution of the images and the complex pelvic structures. Automate...

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Main Authors: Jie Wu, Pavani Davuluri, Kevin R. Ward, Charles Cockrell, Rosalyn Hobson, Kayvan Najarian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Series:International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/327198
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author Jie Wu
Pavani Davuluri
Kevin R. Ward
Charles Cockrell
Rosalyn Hobson
Kayvan Najarian
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description Fracture detection in pelvic bones is vital for patient diagnostic decisions and treatment planning in traumatic pelvic injuries. Manual detection of bone fracture from computed tomography (CT) images is very challenging due to low resolution of the images and the complex pelvic structures. Automated fracture detection from segmented bones can significantly help physicians analyze pelvic CT images and detect the severity of injuries in a very short period. This paper presents an automated hierarchical algorithm for bone fracture detection in pelvic CT scans using adaptive windowing, boundary tracing, and wavelet transform while incorporating anatomical information. Fracture detection is performed on the basis of the results of prior pelvic bone segmentation via our registered active shape model (RASM). The results are promising and show that the method is capable of detecting fractures accurately.
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spelling doaj-art-c0cbcc615263498f99e7079fe2a9f1f32025-08-20T03:23:26ZengWileyInternational Journal of Biomedical Imaging1687-41881687-41962012-01-01201210.1155/2012/327198327198Fracture Detection in Traumatic Pelvic CT ImagesJie Wu0Pavani Davuluri1Kevin R. Ward2Charles Cockrell3Rosalyn Hobson4Kayvan Najarian5Department of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USADepartment of Emergency Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USAVirginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering Science Center (VCURES), Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USADepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, 401 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284, USAFracture detection in pelvic bones is vital for patient diagnostic decisions and treatment planning in traumatic pelvic injuries. Manual detection of bone fracture from computed tomography (CT) images is very challenging due to low resolution of the images and the complex pelvic structures. Automated fracture detection from segmented bones can significantly help physicians analyze pelvic CT images and detect the severity of injuries in a very short period. This paper presents an automated hierarchical algorithm for bone fracture detection in pelvic CT scans using adaptive windowing, boundary tracing, and wavelet transform while incorporating anatomical information. Fracture detection is performed on the basis of the results of prior pelvic bone segmentation via our registered active shape model (RASM). The results are promising and show that the method is capable of detecting fractures accurately.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/327198
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Fracture Detection in Traumatic Pelvic CT Images
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
title Fracture Detection in Traumatic Pelvic CT Images
title_full Fracture Detection in Traumatic Pelvic CT Images
title_fullStr Fracture Detection in Traumatic Pelvic CT Images
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