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This work demonstrates a new automated approach to segment skull from 2D-CT brain image to detect any fracture case. The key steps in the proposed approach include image normalization, centroid identification, multi-level global segmentation and skull skeletonization. Feature vectors such as location and fracture size are then extracted to represent fracture cases. Twenty eight encephalic fracture images are queried from a database of 3032 normal and fractured CT brain images to evaluate the usefulness of the skull segmentation as well as the extracted feature vectors in content-based medical image retrieval system (CBMIR). Retrieval performance of Normalized Euclidean and Normalized Manhattan distance metrics show almost perfect average recall-precision plots that portray the suitability of this approach to the CBMIR of fracture cases.
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Wan Zaki, W.M.D., Ahmad Fauzi, M.F., Besar, R. (2009). A New Approach of Skull Fracture Detection in CT Brain Images. In: Badioze Zaman, H., Robinson, P., Petrou, M., Olivier, P., Schröder, H., Shih, T.K. (eds) Visual Informatics: Bridging Research and Practice. IVIC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5857. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05036-7_16
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