La tomografía computarizada por rayos X es una modalidad utilizada rutinariamente en la práctica clínica. Esta modalidad genera un conjunto de imágenes en bidimensionales, cada una de las cuales representa una rodaja que incluye información sobre la anatomía interna del paciente. Las imágenes tridimensionales son obtenidas a partir de proyecciones radiológicas mediante técnicas de reconstrucción. Las proyecciones son obtenidas por la exposición del objeto a radiaciones de rayos X según distintos ángulos y por la medición del grado de ...

In this work an adaptation of the Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) methodology, in the context of digital medical image processing is proposed. Specifically, synthetic images reported in the literature are used as numerical phantoms. Construction of the synthetic images was inspired by a detailed analysis of some of the imperfections found in the real multilayer cardiac computed tomography images. Of all the imperfections considered, only Poisson noise was selected and incorporated into a synthetic database. ...

A case report of a 3-year-old boy with past medical history of intestinal partially treated amebiasis, is presented. The patient was admitted to Pediatric Unit, San Cristóbal Central Hospi- tal, Táchira, Venezuela, with abdominal pain and fever. An abdominal bloating and a 3 cm palpable hepatomegaly below the right costal margin were assessed. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a liver enlarged in the right antero-superior area. A rounded space-occupying lesion, predominantly solid, with mixed-echo patterns, was assessed using ultrasound. The ...

Lung diseases diagnosis, specifically the presence of lung tumors, is usually performed with the support of radiological techniques. Computed tomography is the most widely used imaging technique to confirm the presence of this disease. When several researchers require identifying the morphology of these tumors, they deal problems related to the poor delimitation of the borders associated with the anatomical structures that compound the lung, Poisson noise, the streak artifact and the non-homogeneity of gray levels that define each object in the ...