Shape Description of FDG uptakes in Pre and Postoperative fused PET/CT Images

Automatic object recognition with shape descriptors help to interact with the real-time environment. This paper describes the shape analysis of radioactivity Fluoro Deoxy Glucose (FDG) uptakes present in pre and postoperative stages of Fused PET/CT images using shape feature extraction approach. Shape features are invariant to various affine transformations such as translation, rotational, flipped, scale, etc., are more robust for shape analysis. Geometrical properties of the FDG uptakes are extracted at various levels of spatial resolution by hierarchical K
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abstraction from the segmented PET/CT images. Rotational invariants considered are the Zernike moments magnitudes and the shape signatures of Fourier descriptors are investigated. The discrimination power of features between pre and post-operative images is examined and evaluated.