Computer Diagnosis of Pneumoconiosis
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
- Vol. SMC-4 (1), 40-49
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.1974.5408519
Abstract
The advent of increased government involvement in occupational health maintenance with compensation for affected individuals is requiring new approaches to medical decision making. One aspect of this involvement will perhaps include the automatic mass diagnostic screening of medical films for the detection of a specffic abnormality with an occupational etiology. The results of two complementary approaches for performing diagnostic screening for presence and profusion of coal worker's pneumoconiosis from the routine posterior-anterior chest radiograph are presented. The first is a digital approach utilizing the measurement of image texture, while the second uses hybrid optical-digital methods involving the optical Fourier tramsform. Both approaches yielded classification results comparable to experienced radiologists.Keywords
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