PC-based medical image analysis system for brain CT hemorrhage area extraction

A PC based medical image analysis system for extracting the brain CT hemorrhage area is developed. Two kinds of segmentation method are investigated, fuzzy Hopfield neural network (FHNN) and possibilistic neural network (PHNN), for classifying the histogram of hemorrhage images and the near optimal threshold values can then be found. In addition, a function for professional doctors to extract the hematoma area is also included. The manual extraction areas are compared to those of the automatic extraction system and the average accuracy can be estimated. The fuzzy Hopfield neural network is a neural network based classification method for fuzzy c-means algorithm. It was proposed for automatic CT and MRI image segmentation to extract the region of interest (ROI). In addition, we develop a new algorithm for classification, which is called as the possibilistic Hopfield neural network. It is developed by imbedding the objective function of possibilistic c-means (PCM) into the energy function of a modified Hopfield neural network. Thus, the near optimal solution can be found by minimizing the energy function.