In this paper, we focus on automatic kidneys detection in 2D abdominal computed tomography (CT) images. Identifying abdominal organs is one of the essential steps for visualization and for providing assistance in teaching, clinical training and diagnosis. It is also a key step in medical image retrieval application. However, due to gray levels similarities of adjacent organs, contrast media effect and relatively high variation of organ's positions and shapes, automatically identifying abdominal organs has always been a challenging task. In this paper, we present an original method, in a statistical framework, for fully automatic kidneys detection. It makes use of spatial and gray-levels prior models built using a set of training images. The method is tested on over 400 clinically acquired images and very promising results are obtained.
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