期刊名称：International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
印刷版ISSN：2158-107X
电子版ISSN：2156-5570
出版年度：2019
卷号：10
期号：12
页码：1-10
出版社：Science and Information Society (SAI)
摘要：Nowadays, clinical diagnoses are more and more
supported by medical equipment, but doctors still need a lot of
time and effort to diagnosis. The construction of a system that
can diagnose automatically will help doctors a lot when the
doctor must handle many medical records. Many diseases need to
be diagnosed by radiographs and they can be diagnosed
automatically, especially bone diseases. The purpose of this paper
is to introduce a new method to measure the curve of the spine in
the X-ray images. We split this subject into two problems. The
first problem is to extract the spine from the X-ray image. We
use the threshold to remove redundant information from the
images. Then an automatic mask is created to save the position of
the spine and smooth the boundary of the spine. Based on the
spine extracted from the previous steps, the Active Shape Model
(ASM) which is designed from the characteristics of the
vertebrae, is used to extract each vertebra from the spine.
Finally, we measure the Cobb angle which is formed by
vertebrae. The solution of two problems is implemented on X-ray
images which have high quality, the results are more than 80%
an area of the spine is extracted, and the Cobb angle is measured
correctly, the accuracy of our method will decrease if the quality
of the image is low.
关键词：Spine detection; spine extraction; vertebrae
detection; cobb angle; adaptive active shape model
