انجمن کامپیوتر ایران

Interstitial Lung Diseases are a complex grouping of disorders with subtle and complex radiographic findings. The goal of this research is to develop a computerized system to analyze and evaluate the lung HRCT images, using image processing and texture analysis techniques. We aim to recognize and quantitatively analyze the three abnormal lung patterns; “honey-comb”, “ground-glass” and “reticular”. Main steps of the research include lung image segmentation, feature extraction, pattern classification and finally, finding the correlation between PFT parameters and computerized data. The system was tested on 160 HRCT scans comprising eight patients with different severities in ILD. The system shows a partial correlation between computerized data and PFT findings.