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Automatic extraction of a kidney region by using the q-1eaning
Description
At present, owing to an aging population and Western-style food, the number of kidney disease patients in Japan is increasing. It is difficult for people to recover fully from kidney disease. Early detection of a kidney disease is therefore needed. But diagnosis based on CT images has faults that are time-consuming and a great labor is required since the quantity of CT images is huge. We propose a method that automatically extracts the kidney region as a preprocessing of kidney failure detection. The kidney region is detected based on contour information that is extracted from the CT image using a dynamic gray scale value refinement method by Q-learning. It is demonstrated that the proposed method can stably detect the kidney from CT images of any patients.
Journal
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- Proceedings of 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2004. ISPACS 2004.
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Proceedings of 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2004. ISPACS 2004. 536-540, 2005-06-15
IEEE
