%0 Journal Article 
%A Bastida Jumilla, María Consuelo
%A Morales Sánchez, Juan
%A Verdú Monedero, Rafael
%A Larrey Ruiz, Jorge
%A Sancho Gómez, José Luis
%T Automatización de medidas morfológicas y ecogénicas de estructuras del aparato locomotor humano mediante procesado de imágenes ecográficas
%D 2008
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1366
%X The boundary detection has a relevant importance
in locomotor system ecographies, mainly because some illnesses
and injuries can be detected before the first symptoms appear.
The images used show a great variety of textures as well as non
clear edges. This drawback may result in different contours
depending on the person who traces them out and different
diagnoses too.
This paper presents the results of applying the geodesic
active contour and other boundary detection techniques in
ecographic images of Aquiles tendon, such as morphological
image processing and active contours. Other modifications to
this algorithm are introduced, like matched filtering.
In order to upgrade the smoothness of the final contour,
morphological image processing and polynomic interpolation
has been used with great results. Actually, the automatization
of boundary detection improves the
%K Teoría de la Señal y las Comunicaciones
%K Tratamiento de imágenes
%K Snake
%K Ecografías del aparato locomotor humano
%K Ultrasound image
%K Image processing
%K Ultrasound scans of the human locomotor
%K Imagen ecográfica
%~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN