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JACIII Vol.16 No.1 pp. 69-75
doi: 10.20965/jaciii.2012.p0069
(2012)

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Discrimination of Pneumoconiosis X-Ray Images Scanned with a CCD Scanner

Masahide Minami*, KojiAbe**,
and Munehiro Nakamura***

*Health Control Department, Awazu Plant, Komatsu Ltd., 23 Tsu, Futsu, Komatsu 923-0392, Japan

**Department of Informatics, School of Science and Engineering, Kinki University, 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka 577-8502, Japan

***Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kakuma, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan

Received:
June 24, 2011
Accepted:
October 12, 2011
Published:
January 20, 2012
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Keywords:
computer-aided diagnosis, pneumoconiosis, chest X-ray images, medical image processing
Abstract
This paper presents a discrimination of pneumoconiosis X-ray images obtained with a common CCD scanner. Since the current computer-aided diagnosis systems of pneumoconiosis are not practical due to high costs of usage, features for measuring abnormalities of pneumoconiosis are proposed as variables for the discrimination in this paper. In the images, abnormal levels of pneumoconiosis could depend on density distribution in each of intercostal and rib areas. Therefore, the proposed method measures the abnormalities by extracting characteristics of the distribution in the areas. Besides, using the abnormalities, the proposed method discriminates chest X-ray images into normal or abnormal cases of pneumoconiosis. Experimental results of the discriminations for 56 right-lung images have shown that the proposed abnormalities are well extracted for the discrimination.
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M. Minami, KojiAbe, and M. Nakamura, “Discrimination of Pneumoconiosis X-Ray Images Scanned with a CCD Scanner,” J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Inform., Vol.16 No.1, pp. 69-75, 2012.
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