Automated Lung Field Segmentation in Chest Radiographs Using Boundary Maps and Snake Models
| Author(s) | : | Veerendra Kumar Challa, Ebenezer Jangam |
| Institution | : | Vignan’s Foundation for Science Technology and research Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh, India. |
| Published In | : | Vol. 13, Issue 8 — August 2026 |
| Page No. | : | 1-9 |
| Domain | : | Computer Engineering / Information Technology |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Snake or active contours are impressively utilized in computer vision and medical image restorative picture preparing applications, and particularly to locate object boundaries, The active contour model used region-based segmentation does the comparative capacity in light of the condition of being uniform of a coveted property inside a sub-area. The Lung field segmentation in chest radiographs (CXRs) is an essential preprocessing advance in accordingly recognize such pictures. We present a technique for lung field segmentation that is based on a superb limit outline by a proficient current limit identifier, to be specific, a snake segmentation calculation , chan vese this model depends on the Mumford-Shah useful for segmentation, and is utilized broadly in the restorative imaging field, particularly for the division of the mind, heart and trachea the model depends on a vitality minimization issue, which can be reformulated in the level set definition, prompting a less demanding approach to take care of the issue. Snake method is evaluated using the public JSRT database of scanned films. The normal Jaccard index of our strategy is 95.4%, which can be compared to estimated those of other best in class strategies (95.7%). The calculation time of our technique is under 0.1 s for a 256 × 256 CXR when executed on a standard computer. Our technique is additionally approved on CXRs gained with various computerized radiography units.
Veerendra Kumar Challa, Ebenezer Jangam, “Automated Lung Field Segmentation in Chest Radiographs Using Boundary Maps and Snake Models”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 13, Issue 8, pp. 1-9, August 2026.








