Pleural Line Detection Enhancement in Lung Ultrasonography (LUS) Based on Morphological and Adaptive Structural 2D Filter

Lung ultrasonography (LUS) imaging has been used intensively to investigate and assess the lung’s various pathological conditions. A diagnostic system of lung abnormalities is developed detect localize pleural line that can be viewed as artifacts in LUS image. The continuous indicates one crucial pattern a healthy lung. regular repeated horizontal A-line marks this with fixed distance between lines ideally, produces higher contrast This work proposes an image processing framework for enhancing detection subjects patients early stage further interpretations pneumonia patients. proposed based on top-hat morphological grayscale 2D filter texture structure element adaptive structural low pass filter. evaluated open dataset video (USG) Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) enhance typical acquired using linear convex transducer.