Miniscr-V2 — the Software System for Automated Interpretation of Chest Photofluorograms

Chest x-ray images are regarded as one of the most useful aids for diagnosis and treatment of lung and heart diseases. Therefore, the number of films to be interpreted by a doctor or a radiologist is tremendously large* and the load of reading films is increasing beyond the ability of available readers. This is the major reason why the development of machine aids has been expected recently. Various kinds of studies concerning computer processing of chest x-ray images have been performed and interesting results have been obtained by many researchers [Kruger et al. (1972), Brooks et al. (1973), Sezaki et al. (1973), Hall et al. (1973), Chien et al. (1974), Ballard et al. (1974), Kruger et al. (1974), Suenaga et al. (1974), Hall et al. (1975)].