SEGMENTATION OF KIDNEY STONE REGION IN ULTRA SOUND IMAGEBY USING REGION PARTITION AND MOUNTING SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM (RPM)

Abstract

One of the safest techniques for disease diagnosis which can be used in any part of the body is ultrasound imaging. The cost when compared with MRI, PET etc are higher than using ultra sound images is the one of the major reason. Further, it is an efficient technique for initial diagnosis and it is free from any radiation exposure. This paper concentrates on segmentation of kidney from abdominal ultrasound images. There are many common ailments affecting kidney. Hence conducting study on this segmented image becomes easy with an efficient segmentation technique. In this paper Various algorithms to pull out kidney regions from abdominal ultrasound images which are discussed by many researchers are also investigated. Due to the complicated internal organs of the abdominal region, extraction of only the kidney region is very challenging and is the major drawback of ultrasound imaging. a new technique where the collected abdominal ultrasound image  is cleaned, to remove unwanted noise produced due to various interferences has been processed by this paper, the kidney region is segmented after applying the filtering technique. the subjected to Region indicator contour segmentation method to extract the renal calculi which is the region of interest in this study is this extracted kidney image. with a  reasonable number of dataset and applied the statistical performance test to check for the accuracy , the method is experimented .