features extraction from medical image

Hi every one

I need Matlab program for extracting features from medical image regards,

Majid

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/6200-tutorial-how-to-ask-a-question-on-answers-and-get-a-fast-answer

[Majid Al-Sirafi]

dear Roberson, thanks for your recommendations

really, I start my research in medical image.

I need simple matlab code about that

[Walter Roberson]

The code for automatically extracting any kind of features from any kind of medical image is the kind of project that you start as the topic of your PhD thesis, and then develop over the next 30 years.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Start with my Image Segmentation Tutorial in my File Exchange http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=authorid%3A31862&sort=downloads_desc

Then search for medical algorithms specific to your imagery here in Vision Bibliography http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/contentsmedical.html#Medical%20Applications,%20CAT,%20MRI,%20Ultrasound,%20Heart%20Models,%20Brain%20Models

[Majid Al-Sirafi]

Firstly, Thank you very much dear Image Analyst for supporting me,

your tutorials are useful for me. I will start with it

Secondly, I need you recommendation during my research in medical image processing

regards,

Majid

[Image Analyst]

I have nothing to recommend to you. I know nothing about your interests or strengths or the ability to get imagery from different modalities. So I recommend you talk to your adviser.

[Majid Al-Sirafi]

thank you for every thing

[ravi teja]

i want matlab code for feature extraction to find brain tumor

[Walter Roberson]

I was part of an international multi-disciplinary brain stroke and tumor research project that included neurosurgeons.

Broadly speaking, our findings included:

• MRI could help detect some kinds of tumors, but because of the very high importance of false negatives / false positives on brain tumors, feature detection was not a sufficient technique to be worth the effort. (Brain MRI are expensive; if you are going to do one, make sure it is worth doing; get a neurosurgeon to look at the results.)
• CT studies were not any better (though that might perhaps be because we had experts designing new MRI pulse sequences, so we had more flexibility on MRI)
• FMRI oxygen studies combined with image registration against the Human Brain Atlas were considerably more helpful at detecting areas affected by stroke (low oxygen use), and detecting areas where tumors were growing by finding areas consuming a lot of oxygen. Tumors detected by oxygen consumption often did not differ statistically from healthy brain images taken from MRI, and a fair portion of the time had irregular sprawling reaches of blood vessels co-opted by tumors. The somewhat dead areas cut off by stroke could be found by comparing expected oxygen use using imaging techniques, but feature shape detection on tumors detected by oxygen consumption were often a waste of time because they were so irregular; the only useful measure being difference in oxygen flow for an area (no shape detection needed.)
• For tumors that were not obvious through FMRI oxygen study, then what really helped was MRS. We found important brain chemical differences for tumors that were detectable a fair while before MRI or CT could detect the tumor through imaging. Indeed, we found a class of brain tumor that was quite reliably, easily and comparatively inexpensively detectable through MRS of urine samples.

Thus, I do not especially recommend projects on image feature extraction to find brain tumors.

... But if you are going to go ahead anyhow, then here are some important steps to take:

1. Do at least a week of literature research to find all of the known types of brain tumors including all of their important variants
2. Work for at least a year on arranging to get imaging samples and tissue samples of all of those types of tumors. This will be a lot harder than it sounds, as you will need to negotiate privacy laws internationally, and you will need to negotiate patent rights, and you will need to negotiate for funding for expenses occurred in getting you the samples -- and you will need to negotiate authorship for your paper (you will not likely be successful in your negotiations unless you are writing a paper that has the backing of an internationally recognized university or an internationally recognized scientist.)
3. Work with at least 3 neuroscientists to classify all of the parts of all of the images after microscopic examination of the tissue samples
4. And then you can start the work on the code for feature extraction to find brain tumors.