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The objective of this work is to develop a platform-independent tool for analysis of Scintigraphic renal dynamic studies. It allowing quantification kidney, from a series of Scintigraphic images in the format provided DICOM. This tool allows an automatic or manual drawing of regions of interest and the kidney in renal background even if small kidney and / or little functional kidney, drawing the isotopic nephrogram corrected for background noise (activity curves kidney) and determining the renal function on according to the method of the integral. This developed tool allows obtaining semi-automatic so reproducible results on page relevant information to the physician to assess the functional status of each kidney: the isotopic nephrogram, viewing dynamic images and the relative function that users can calculate renal function through the regions of both kidneys. This tool is a step forward towards standardization as a suitable tool for education, research, and for receiving distant expert’s opinions.
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Aribi, Y., Wali, A., Hamza, F., Alimi, A.M., Guermazi, F. (2012). Analysis of Scintigraphic Renal Dynamic Studies: An Image Processing Tool for the Clinician and Researcher. In: Hassanien, A.E., Salem, AB.M., Ramadan, R., Kim, Th. (eds) Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications. AMLTA 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 322. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35326-0_27
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