Title:	PARTITION ITERATED FUNCTION RADIOGRAPHS IMAGE ENHANCEMENT FOR FISH BONE DETECTION
Author(s):	Noor Elaiza Abdul Khalid, Saadiah Yahya, Hidayah Shariff
ISBN:	978-972-8939-48-9
Editors:	Yingcai Xiao
Year:	2011
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Image Enhancement, Partition Iterated Function, Foreign body, Fish bone, Radiographs.
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	303
Last Page:	307
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	This paper investigate the effectiveness of Partition Iterated function(PIFs) in detecting suspected fish bone ingestion in the soft tissue lateral neck radiograph. Embedded fish bone lodge in the throat is not easily visible in plain radiograph. Serious complication may cause perforation of the lodged and inflammation that can progress to abscess. Forty X-ray images of 23 male and 17 female patients between the ages of 6 to 72 years are taken as the data sample. The quality of the images were assessed and evaluated during pre and post processing by the radiologist. The images are classifies into five; 1. fish bone(FB) detected in original and processes; 2. FB not detected in original but detected in processed images ; 3. FB detected in original but found as false-positive in PIFS; 4. Fish bone detected on PIFS but not detected on PAC and 5. FB not detected but abnormality detected. The result has proven PIFs as promising contrast enhancement method for detecting fish bone in lateral neck soft tissue radiographs.
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