Software to assist in the interpretation of bone scans

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to develop a medical system that optimizes the sensitivity of the bone scintigraphy in the diagnosis to patients with bone cancer problems, bone disease, infections, bone wear, or malignancies like bone metastasis which will monitor the deterioration of the bones caused by the disease in case. In this work the sensitivity of bone scintigraphy was improved to help in their interpretation and therefore we aid in the radiological digitization, which consists of a process that allows to obtain a digitalized image from an analogue image. Which means it is susceptible to being stored in the form of a number representing the position of a pixel point, elementary surface unit. This can be done using the means of digitization and digital image processing (PDI), in addition to the enhancement tools offered by various processes, a greater sensitivity is projected in the radiological images, to evaluate the results potential gain in the diagnostic probability offered by this digitization process. The picture formats that can be used are JPG, BMP or DICOM. To have an improvement in the radiological diagnostic sensitivity, a conversion of a grayscale image to the color map in RGB (Red, Green and Blue) must be done, representing the values of the pixels of the grayscale image as follows: (1) The lowest values will be displayed in shades of blue, (2) Intermediate values are represented in shades of green, and (3) The lowest values will be displayed in shades of red. When using this color map, the image will be different tones by the combination of the above-mentioned colors.

Keywords

• Metastatis
• tumor
• bone scintigraphy
• scintigraphy
• osteomyelitis
• metabolism