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2 Real and Artificial Artifacts A range of real and artificial artifacts can affect the appearance of objects in the images. Artificial artifacts are those that are introduced in the process of acquiring the scans, and may not appear if scanned differently or at another time. Meanwhile, real artifacts are those that exist within the body and influence the appearance of the anatomy, and cannot be eliminated by changing the scanning protocol. �������������������������� 1������������������������� a������������������������ .
The processes apply their knowledge 28 Lung Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis and communicate the results to other processes. The knowledge within a ProcessNet processes may be represented within any arbitrary form. 2. 3. These two central tasks are critical for systematic incremental engineering of medical image segmentation systems, and form the change management mechanisms of ProcessNet. 3. 4. 1 Ripple-Down Rules RDRs are an incremental knowledge acquisition technique that recognizes the inability of experts to correctly and completely articulate the knowledge necessary when constructing knowledge- or expert-based systems (Compton and Jansen 1989).
3 Deformable Model Fitting Deformable model-fitting techniques represent expectations about an object being sought in a model, that is, fitted directly to the image data (McInerney and Terzopoulos 2009). In contrast with rigid pattern or template-matching techniques (Ballard and Brown 1982; Grimson 1990), deformable models allow the model to be deformed to fit the evidence within the images, albeit within certain limits. These techniques fit the model to the image data via optimization methods using energy or cost functions that evaluate the quality of the fit.