Circle-like foreign element detection in chest x-rays using normalized cross-correlation and unsupervised clustering

Fatema T. Zohora; Sameer Antani; K. C. Santosh

doi:10.1117/12.2293739

2 March 2018 Circle-like foreign element detection in chest x-rays using normalized cross-correlation and unsupervised clustering

Fatema T. Zohora, Sameer Antani, K. C. Santosh

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Proceedings Volume 10574, Medical Imaging 2018: Image Processing; 105741V (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293739
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2018, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

Presence of foreign objects (buttons, medical devices) adversely impact the performance of the automated chest X-ray (CXR) screening. We present a novel image processing and machine learning technique to detect circle-like foreign elements in CXR images that helps avoid confusions in automated detection of abnormalities, such as nodules and other calcifications. In our technique, we apply normalized cross-correlation using a few templates to collect potential circle-like elements and unsupervised clustering to make a decision. We validated our fully automatic technique on a set of 400 publicly available images hosted by LHNCBC, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our method achieved an accuracy greater than 90% and outperforms existing techniques that are reported in the literature.

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Fatema T. Zohora, Sameer Antani, and K. C. Santosh "Circle-like foreign element detection in chest x-rays using normalized cross-correlation and unsupervised clustering", Proc. SPIE 10574, Medical Imaging 2018: Image Processing, 105741V (2 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293739

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