APPLICATION OF PARALLEL PROCESSING - A CASE STUDY ON VERTEBRA DETECTION IN X-RAY IMAGES

Mohamad Khairul Hazman bin Mohamad Zaidi #1, Mohamed Faidz Mohamed Said #2

# Faculty of Computer & Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA
70300 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, MALAYSIA

1  khairul.hazman.94@gmail.com
2  faidzms@ieee.org

 
Abstract— X-ray computed tomography (CT) is non-invasive imaging technique that creates cross-sectional images of an object from two-dimensional X-ray projections. For the case study on the vertebra detection in X-ray images, this technology is linked to the machine called the Computed Axial Tomography or well known as the CAT or CT scan. This application on the parallel processing is widely used in the medical field society to detect the vertebra in the X-ray images. It is a present-day imaging instrument that consolidates X-rays with PC innovation to deliver a more point by point, cross-sectional picture of your body. A CT scan gives your specialist a chance to see the size, shape, and position of structures that are somewhere inside your body, for example, organs, tissues, tumors and vertebrae. It also gives a much detail look on the problems parts of the body that need to be cured. Beside vertebrae detection, it is also used to detect cancer cells. CT scan have helped us a lot in the medical world by detecting what our plain eyes cannot see.

Keyword: vertebra, tumors, parallel processing, cancer



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