Automatic Extraction of Appendix from Ultrasonography with Self-Organizing Map and Shape-Brightness Pattern Learning

Accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis is a difficult problem in practice especially when the patient is too young or women in pregnancy. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic appendix extractor from ultrasonography by applying a series of image processing algorithms and an unsupervised neur...

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Main Authors: Kwang Baek Kim, Doo Heon Song, Hyun Jun Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5206268