Features Extraction to Differentiate of Spinal Curvature Types using Hue Moment Algorithm

Abstract

Nowadays, diagnosing the spinal problems is very important to medical field. The objective of this research is to develop feature extraction technique to obtain the features, which automatically differentiate images of normal and abnormal (scoliosis) spinal curvatures. The process to extract features of spinal image start with image acquisition, image processing (i.e. enhancement, filtering, and segmentation). For image processing method, the most important part in this phase is the segmentation using manual threshold method. After the segmentation, hue moment for size and parameter are used to extract features that should be considered based on probabilistic to classify the spine images. The final experimental result shows that the developed features extraction technique can differentiate between normal and scoliosis spine images.