Adaptive Detection of Hotspots in Thoracic Spine from Bone Scintigraphy

摘要

In this paper, we propose an adaptive algorithm for the detection of hotspots in thoracic spine from bone scintigraphy. The intensity distribution of spine is firstly analyzed. The Gaussian fitting curve for the intensity distribution of thoracic spine is estimated, in which the influence of hotspots is eliminated. The accurate boundary of hotspot is delineated via adaptive region growing algorithm. Finally, a new deviation operator is proposed to train the Bayes classifier. The experiment results show that the algorithm achieve high sensitivity (97.04%) with 1.119 false detections per image for hotspot detection in thoracic spine.