Cross-Correlation Template Matching for Liver Localisation in Computed Tomography

Many of the current approaches to automatic organ localisation in medical imaging require a large amount of labelled patient data to train systems to accurately identify specific anatomical features. CrossCorrelation, also known as template matching, is a statistical method of assessing the similarity between a template image and a target image. This method has been modified and presented here to localize the liver in Computed Tomography volume images in the Coronal and Sagital planes to achieve a mean positioning error of approximately 11 mm and 20 mm respectively based on between 1 and 25 datasets to create the template liver.