Using trainable segmentation and watershed transform for identifying unilocular and multilocular cysts from ultrasound images of ovarian tumour

Dheyaa Ahmed Ibrahim; Hisham Al-Assam; Hongbo Du; Sabah Jassim

doi:10.1117/12.2267468

10 May 2017 Using trainable segmentation and watershed transform for identifying unilocular and multilocular cysts from ultrasound images of ovarian tumour

Dheyaa Ahmed Ibrahim, Hisham Al-Assam, Hongbo Du, Sabah Jassim

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Proceedings Volume 10221, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2017; 102210B (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2267468
Event: SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging, 2017, Anaheim, CA, United States

Abstract

Ovarian masses are categorised into different types of malignant and benign. In order to optimize patient treatment, it is necessary to carry out pre-operational characterisation of the suspect ovarian mass to determine its category. Ultrasound imaging has been widely used in differentiating malignant from benign cases due to its safe and non-intrusive nature, and can be used for determining the number of cysts in the ovary. Presently, the gynaecologist is tasked with manually counting the number of cysts shown on the ultrasound image. This paper proposes, a new approach that automatically segments the ovarian masses and cysts from a static B-mode image. Initially, the method uses a trainable segmentation procedure and a trained neural network classifier to accurately identify the position of the masses and cysts. After that, the borders of the masses can be appraised using watershed transform. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been tested by comparing the number of cysts identified by the method against the manual examination by a gynaecologist. A total of 65 ultrasound images were used for the comparison, and the results showed that the proposed solution is a viable alternative to the manual counting method for accurately determining the number of cysts in a US ovarian image.

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Dheyaa Ahmed Ibrahim, Hisham Al-Assam, Hongbo Du, and Sabah Jassim "Using trainable segmentation and watershed transform for identifying unilocular and multilocular cysts from ultrasound images of ovarian tumour", Proc. SPIE 10221, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2017, 102210B (10 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2267468

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