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    • Medical Imaging
    • Radiology
    • Machine Learning in Medicine

    Background:

    • Traumatic abdominal injuries frequently cause kidney lacerations.
    • Contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography (CT) is crucial for assessing kidney damage.
    • Current visual CT scan analysis is slow, subjective, and error-prone.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate an automated kidney segmentation technique for trauma cases.
    • To improve the efficiency and accuracy of kidney injury assessment from CT scans.

    Main Methods:

    • A machine learning and active contour modeling approach for kidney segmentation.
    • Initialization mask detection followed by boundary evolution.
    • Model specifically designed and tested on trauma patient CT scans.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved an average recall score of 92.6%.
    • Demonstrated an average Dice similarity coefficient of 88.9%.
    • Indicates high accuracy in kidney segmentation for trauma evaluations.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed method offers a more efficient and quantitative alternative to manual CT scan analysis.
    • This automated segmentation can aid in faster and more reliable diagnosis of traumatic kidney injuries.
    • The technique shows significant promise for clinical application in emergency radiology.