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An Electronic Colon Cleansing Method using a Patient Colon CT Profile

환자 대장 CT 프로파일을 이용한 전자적 장세척 방법

  • 김한별 (숭실대학교 정보통신 전자공학부) ;
  • 김동성 (숭실대학교 정보통신 전자공학부)
  • Published : 2008.08.15
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Abstract

This paper proposes an electronic colon cleansing method using a patient CT profile for a virtual colonoscopy. The proposed method extracts the colon using cubic seeded region growing, and removes tagged materials adjacent to the colon. Residuals produced by a partial volume effect at the boundary of air-tagged material are deleted, and the removed soft tissue pixels due to a partial volume effect at the boundary of tagged material-soft tissue are recovered using a patient CT profile. The proposed method was applied to 16 virtual colonoscopy patient data sets, and produced promising results by a subjective evaluation of a radiologist and by a quantitative evaluation of a computer-aided diagnosis system.

가상 대장 내시경을 위해서 환자 대장 CT 프로파일을 이용한 전자적 장세척 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 관강 영역을 cubic seeded region growing(SRG) 방법을 이용하여 추출하고, 이에 인접한 tagged material(TM)을 제거한다. TM의 경계에서 Air-TM의 partial volume(PV) 효과로 발생한 찌꺼기를 제거하고, TM-soft tissue(ST)의 PVE에 의해서 제거된 ST는 환자 CT 프로파일을 이용해서 복원한다. 제안된 방법을 16명의 가상 내시경 환자 CT 데이타에 적용해서 임상의의 주관적인 평가와 computer-aided diagnosis(CAD)의 정량적 평가에서 매우 고무적인 결과를 획득했다.

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