Searching of liver ranges in abdominal CT images using genetic algorithms and neural networks

摘要

Abdominal CT images are used for liver tumor extraction. In this paper, the extraction method of liver range in such abdominal CT images is proposed. The purpose is that the system becomes assistance or the liver tumor extraction in diagnostic imaging or a pretreatment of a liver tumor extraction system. The liver range is extracted with high accuracy by the technique of combining genetic algorithms (GA) and neural networks (NN). Furthermore, in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, we show simulation examples, using real CT image data.