Medical image segmentation using object atlas versus object cloud models

Renzo Phellan; Alexandre X. Falcão; Jayaram K. Udupa

doi:10.1117/12.2077607

18 March 2015 Medical image segmentation using object atlas versus object cloud models

Renzo Phellan, Alexandre X. Falcão, Jayaram K. Udupa

Proceedings Volume 9415, Medical Imaging 2015: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 94151M (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077607
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Medical image segmentation is crucial for quantitative organ analysis and surgical planning. Since interactive segmentation is not practical in a production-mode clinical setting, automatic methods based on 3D object appearance models have been proposed. Among them, approaches based on object atlas are the most actively investigated. A key drawback of these approaches is that they require a time-costly image registration process to build and deploy the atlas. Object cloud models (OCM) have been introduced to avoid registration, considerably speeding up the whole process, but they have not been compared to object atlas models (OAM). The present paper fills this gap by presenting a comparative analysis of the two approaches in the task of individually segmenting nine anatomical structures of the human body. Our results indicate that OCM achieve a statistically significant better accuracy for seven anatomical structures, in terms of Dice Similarity Coefficient and Average Symmetric Surface Distance.

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Renzo Phellan, Alexandre X. Falcão, and Jayaram K. Udupa "Medical image segmentation using object atlas versus object cloud models", Proc. SPIE 9415, Medical Imaging 2015: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 94151M (18 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2077607

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