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We present a method for detecting the axis of bilateral symmetry in a digital chest X-ray image and subsequently measuring the degree of symmetry of the image. The detection is achieved by analysing rotated-reflected digital chest X-ray images and it is posed as a global optimization problem solved with a probabilistic genetic algorithm (PGA). The global search is initially based on natural peak orientation information related to the orientation of the symmetry axis. Only a few generations of the PGA are needed to achieve convergence to all the images in the database. This method is applied directly on the intensity input image and does not require any prior segmentation.
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Vinhais, C., Campilho, A. (2003). Optimal Detection of Symmetry Axis in Digital Chest X-ray Images. In: Perales, F.J., Campilho, A.J.C., de la Blanca, N.P., Sanfeliu, A. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44871-6_125
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