Current Status of Bio-medical Imaging Technology and Method in China: A Review

Abstract

Abstract-Medicine imaging plays a more and more important role in illness detection and treatment. Various imaging skills, including CT imaging, MR imaging, ultrasound imaging and so on are in application and under research nowadays, and those images could be got from medicine databases in hospitals, clinical cases or volunteers. Since the biomedical researches are attracting more and more attention in China, our group investigated papers on biomedical published in the last 3 years in China and referenced 35 papers here. From different views, we investigated methods applied in image resources, image preprocessing, image registration, image segmentation, and their application fields. By reviewing those papers, we aim at getting a brief view of the current biomedical research trend in China.

Automatic segmentation in image stacks based on multi-constraint level-set evolution

“…These methods can be divided into several main categories as follows: (1) Interactive method [2,3]. Interactive method is the only method that can extract all the complex contours, but it is time-consuming.…”

“…However, there are still some difficulties in obtaining these section curves. It is still a challenging task to automatically extract section curves in image stacks (such as CT/MRI images) [1].…”