International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 9, No 6: December 2019

Automatic segmentation of wrist bone fracture area by K-means pixel clustering from X-ray image

Kwang Baek Kim (Silla University)
Doo Heon Song (Yong-In SongDam College)
Sang-Seok Yun (Silla University)

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Publish Date
01 Dec 2019

Abstract

Early detection of subtle fracture is important particularly for the senior citizens’ quality of life. Naked eye examination from X-ray image may cause false negatives due to operator subjectivity thus computer vision based automatic detection software is much needed in practice.  In this paper, we propose an automatic extraction method for suspisious wrist fracture regions. We apply K-means in pixel clustering to form the candidate part of possible fracture from wrist X-ray image automatically. This method can recover previously detected patterned false cases with edge detection method after fuzzy stretching. The proposed method is successful in 16 out of 20 tested cases in experiment.

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International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Abbrev

IJECE

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Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

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International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of ...