25-10-2012, 12:14 PM
Segmenting Images for a Better Diagnosis
ABSTRACT
NASA’s Hierarchical Segmentation (HSEG) software has been adapted by Bartron Medical Imaging, LLC, for use in
segmentation feature extraction, pattern recognition, and classification of medical images. Bartron acquired licenses from
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for application of the HSEG concept to medical imaging, from the California Institute
of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory to incorporate pattern-matching software, and from Kennedy Space Center for
data-mining and edge-detection programs. The Med-Seg[TM] united developed by Bartron provides improved diagnoses for
a wide range of medical images, including computed tomography scans, positron emission tomography scans, magnetic
resonance imaging, ultrasound, digitized Z-ray, digitized mammography, dental X-ray, soft tissue analysis, and moving object
analysis. It also can be used in analysis of soft-tissue slides. Bartron’s future plans include the application of HSEG technology
to drug development. NASA is advancing it’s HSEG software to learn more about the Earth’s magnetosphere.