Automatic Diagnosis of Thyroid Graves Disease in Ultrasound Images

摘要：

Hyperthyroidism is a common thyroid disease. Graves disease is the most common etiology with 70-80％ of hyperthyroidism. Conventionally, a diagnosis requires weeks to confirm with blood tests. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach to diagnose Graves disease in ultrasound images directly. We segment the thyroid regions, and utilize a high performance classifier to recognize the regions. The diagnostic result is determined using the area measure of these regions. Experimental results show effectiveness of the proposed approach.

关键词： Graves disease image processing support vector machine

作者: Chuan-Yu Chang Hsiang-Yi Liu Chin-Hsiao Tseng Shyang-Rong Shih

作者单位: Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science & Techno Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, Taiwa

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 Ninth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems(第九届混合智能系统国际会议 HIS 2009)

会议地点: 沈阳

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-6

在线出版日期: 2009-08-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）