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Needle Detection by using Morphological Operation and Line Segment Approximation

형태학적 연산과 선분 근사화를 이용한 침 검출

  • Jang, Kyung-shik (Department of multimedia Engineering, Dongeui University) ;
  • Han, Soowhan (Department of multimedia Engineering, Dongeui University)
  • Received : 2015.08.12
  • Accepted : 2015.09.14
  • Published : 2015.12.31
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Abstract

In this paper, neddle detection algorithm for the removal of needle stuck into skin in oriental clinic is presented. First, in the proposed method, potential candidate areas of each needle are selected by using the morphological open operation in a gray image, and the false candidates are removed by considering their area size. Next, edge points are extracted using canny edge detector in selected candidate areas, line segments are approximated using the edge points. Based on the direction of line segment and the distance between two line segments, two main line segments of the needle are extracted. The final verification of needle is accomplished by using the morphological analysis of these two line segments. In the experiments, the detection rate of proposed method reaches to 97.5% for the 16 images containing 119 needles.

이 논문에서는 한방 치료에서 피부에 직침된 침의 제거를 위한 침 검출 방법을 제안한다. 명암도 영상에서 형태학적 열기 연산을 이용하여 침 후보 영역이 검출되고 크기 정보 등을 이용하여 거짓 침 후보 영역이 제거된다. 각 후보영역에서 canny 에지 검출기를 사용하여 에지 점들을 찾고 이들 점들을 선분으로 근사화한다. 선분들의 방향과 선분간의 거리를 기반으로 하는 형태학적 분석을 통해 두 개의 주요 선분을 찾고 침 머리 부분을 검출한다. 119개의 침이 직침된 16개의 영상에 대한 실험 결과 97.5 %의 검출율을 얻었다.

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