Dynamically learned PSO based neighborhood influenced fuzzy c-means for pre-treatment and post-treatment organ segmentation from CT images.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The accurate segmentation of pre-treatment and post-treatment organs is always perceived as a challenging task in medical image analysis field. Especially, in those situations where the amount of data set is limited, the researchers are compelled to design unsupervised model for segmentation. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamically learned particle swarm optimization based neighborhood influenced fuzzy c-means (DLPSO-NIFCM) clustering (unsupervised learning model) for solving pre-treatment and post-treatment organs segmentation problems. The proposed segmentation technique has been successfully applied to segment the liver parts from the Computed Tomography (CT) images of abdomen and also the lung parenchyma from the lungs CT images.

Authors

  • Tiyasa Chakraborty
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. Electronic address: tiyasachakraborty@gmail.com.
  • Samiran Kumar Banik
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. Electronic address: samiran.mtech@gmail.com.
  • Ashok Kumar Bhadra
    Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, India. Electronic address: akrbhadra@gmail.com.
  • Debashis Nandi
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. Electronic address: debashis@cse.nitdgp.ac.in.