Fractal Dimension-Based Infection Detection in Chest X-ray Images

Abstract

The current ongoing trend of dimension detection of medical images is one of the challenging areas which facilitates several improvements in accurate measuring of clinical imaging based on fractal dimension detection methodologies. For medical diagnosis of any infection, detection of dimension is one of the major challenges due to the fractal shape of the medical object. Significantly improved outcome indicates that the performance of fractal dimension detection techniques is better than that of other state-of-the-art methods to extract diagnostically significant information from clinical image. Among the fractal dimension detection methodologies, fractal geometry has developed an efficient tool in medical image investigation. In this paper, a novel methodology of fractal dimension detection of medical images is proposed based on the concept of box counting technique to evaluate the fractal dimension. The proposed method has been evaluated and compared to other state-of-the-art approaches, and the results of the proposed algorithm graphically justify the mathematical derivation of the box counting approach in terms of Hurst exponent.