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dc.contributor.authorNaseem, Rabia
dc.contributor.authorCheikh, Faouzi Alaya
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-30T07:58:27Z
dc.date.available2020-06-30T07:58:27Z
dc.date.created2020-01-06T16:10:03Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationComputer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 2019, 184 .en_US
dc.identifier.issn0169-2607
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2659974
dc.description.abstractBackground and objective: Medical image segmentation plays a vital role in medical image analysis. There are many algorithms developed for medical image segmentation which are based on edge or region characteristics. These are dependent on the quality of the image. The contrast of a CT or MRI image plays an important role in identifying region of interest i.e. lesion(s). In order to enhance the contrast of image, clinicians generally use manual histogram adjustment technique which is based on 1D histogram specification. This is time consuming and results in poor distribution of pixels over the image. Cross modality based contrast enhancement is 2D histogram specification technique. This is robust and provides a more uniform distribution of pixels over CT image by exploiting the inner structure information from MRI image. This helps in increasing the sensitivity and accuracy of lesion segmentation from enhanced CT image. The sequential implementation of cross modality based contrast enhancement is slow. Hence we propose GPU acceleration of cross modality based contrast enhancement for tumor segmentation. Methods: The aim of this study is fast parallel cross modality based contrast enhancement for CT liver images. This includes pairwise 2D histogram, histogram equalization and histogram matching. The sequential implementation of the cross modality based contrast enhancement is computationally expensive and hence time consuming. We propose persistence and grid-stride loop based fast parallel contrast enhancement for CT liver images. We use enhanced CT liver image for the lesion or tumor segmentation. We implement the fast parallel gradient based dynamic seeded region growing for lesion segmentation. Results: The proposed parallel approach is 104.416 ( ± 5.166) times faster compared to the sequential implementation and increases the sensitivity and specificity of tumor segmentation. Conclusion: The cross modality approach is inspired by 2D histogram specification which incorporates spatial information existing in both guidance and input images for remapping the input image intensity values. The cross modality based liver contrast enhancement improves the quality of tumor segmentation.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleGPU acceleration of liver enhancement for tumor segmentationen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.source.pagenumber11en_US
dc.source.volume184en_US
dc.source.journalComputer Methods and Programs in Biomedicineen_US
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105285
dc.identifier.cristin1767169
dc.description.localcode"© 2019. This is the authors’ accepted and refereed manuscript to the article. Locked until 17.12.2021 due to copyright restrictions. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ "en_US
cristin.unitcode194,63,10,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for datateknologi og informatikk
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