Automatic Vertebral Fracture Assessment System (AVFAS) for Spinal Pathologies Diagnosis Based on Radiograph X-Ray Images

Abstract

Nowadays, medical imaging has become a major tool in many clinical trials. This is because the technology enables rapid diagnosis
with visualization and quantitative assessment that facilitate health practitioners or professionals. Since the medical and
healthcare sector is a vast industry that is very much related to every citizen‘s quality of life, the image based medical
diagnosis has become one of the important service areas in this sector. As such, a medical diagnostic imaging (MDI) software
tool for assessing vertebral fracture is being developed which we have named as AVFAS short for Automatic Vertebral Fracture
Assessment System. The developed software system is capable of indexing, detecting and classifying vertebral fractures by
measuring the shape and appearance of vertebrae of radiograph x-ray images of the spine. This paper describes the MDI software
tool which consists of three main sub-systems known as Medical Image Training & Verification System (MITVS), Medical Image
and Measurement & Decision System (MIMDS) and Medical Image Registration System (MIRS) in term of its functionality, performance,
ongoing research and outstanding technical issues.
Keywordsspine x-ray pathologies-image processing-ASM model-B-spline-AVFAS-MIMDS-MITVS-MIRS