Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Faculty of Engineering Multimedia University
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Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Faculty of Engineering Multimedia University Imaging Informatics Imaging basics Imaging modalities PACS and its core functions DICOM 20 mm Nodule 4 mm Nodule 5 mm
Imaging Informatics Imaging basics Imaging modalities PACS and its core functions DICOM
20 mm Nodule
4 mm Nodule
5 mm Nodule
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Breast cancer is missed 10-30%
…
by Expert Mammographers
Sensitivity of radiologists in detecting breast
cancer on mammograms can be improved by
15% through double reading.
Computer-aided
diagnosis:
- a diagnosis made by
a physician using the
- utput of a
computerized system
Computerized
system
- Automated image (or
data) analysis
Breast Cancer Lung Cancer Brain Cancer Colon Cancer
Find Six Differences
Find Six Differences
- Microcalcifications
- Masses
- Solitary Pulmonary Nodules
- Ground Glass Opacities
Benign Malignant
HR 2 (7/23/01) 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
10 20 30 40 50 10 20 30 40 50 60
Organ segmentation Candidate detection/segmentation Feature Extraction Classification/clustering
Organ segmentation Candidate detection/segmentation Feature Extraction Classification/clustering
Segment Lung Regions within the CT slice Detect left and right lungs
Segmented lung region may exclude some
nodules adjacent to pleura
Connect edge points of concave regions Recover potential nodules adjacent to pleura
P1 P2 de d1 d2
Organ segmentation Candidate detection/segmentation Feature Extraction Classification/clustering
Pre-screening CNN Classifier Clustering
Mammogram Image Potential Signals Potential TP Signals Microcalcification Clusters
Pre-screening CNN Classifier Clustering
Mammogram Image Potential Signals Potential TP Signals Microcalcification Clusters
Identify high density regions within segmented
lung regions
Segmentation by k-means clustering with two
classes:
- nodule candidates
- lung region
Thin long structure True nodule V-shaped structure
Identification of Blood Vessels
Organ segmentation Candidate detection/segmentation Feature Extraction Classification/clustering
Thin long structures
- Major-to-minor axis ratio of a fitted ellipse
V-shaped structures
- Rectangularity
Thin long structures V-shaped structures a b
b a Rtl
- bject
- f
Area rectangle
- f
Area
v
R
Organ segmentation Candidate detection/segmentation Feature Extraction Classification/clustering
FP ROI TP ROI
Pre-screening CNN Classifier Clustering
Mammogram Image Potential Signals Potential TP Signals Microcalcification Clusters
INPUT ROI
{
0: FP 1: TP
CNN Classifier
Pre-screening CNN Classifier Clustering
Mammogram Image Potential Signals Potential TP Signals Microcalcification Clusters
Image
- How to represent
- How to generate it
Imaging modalities
- How to integrate
- How to manage
Image Analysis
- Radiology
- Big picture