Automatic landmark detection through circular hough transform in cephalometric X-rays

In this paper, a knowledge based framework is proposed to detect automatically cephalometric landmarks: Porion (Po), Sella (S), Menton (Me), Pogonion (Pg) and Gnathion (Gn). In this way anomalies can be diagnosed easily by orthodontists. Our framework comprise of two main steps: (1) Adaptive Histogram Equalisation (AHE) is applied to clarify the image which is used to determine the method of treatment in orthodontics and obtained from the plain X-ray. (2) Circular Hough Transform method is used to locate the cephalometric landmarks automatically on the processed image, the method was tested on 7 cephalometric images and our framework accurately and automatically locates these 5 cephalometric landmarks.