Medical Image Analysis Through a Texture Based Computer Aided Diagnosis Framework

Current medical imaging scanners allow to obtain high resolution digital images with a complex informative content expressed by the textural aspect of the membranes covering organs and tissues (hereinafter objects). These textural information can be exploited to develop a descriptive mathematical model of the objects to support heterogeneous activities within medical field. This paper presents a framework based on the texture analysis to model the objects contained in the layout of diagnostic images. By each specific model, the framework automatically also defines a connected application supporting, on the related objects, different targets, such as: segmentation, mass detection, reconstruction, and so on. The framework is tested on MRI images and results are reported.