Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOLOGY AND SURGERY
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 413-430Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-016-1507-z
Keywords
Multiatlas segmentation; Diffeomorphic demons algorithm; Anatomical landmark; Spine; Pelvis
Funding
- JSPS [15H01108, 15K19775]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26108001, 15K21716, 15H01108, 15K19775, 26108002] Funding Source: KAKEN
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A fully automatic multiatlas-based method for segmentation of the spine and pelvis in a torso CT volume is proposed. A novel landmark-guided diffeomorphic demons algorithm is used to register a given CT image to multiple atlas volumes. This algorithm can utilize both grayscale image information and given landmark coordinate information optimally. The segmentation has four steps. Firstly, 170 bony landmarks are detected in the given volume. Using these landmark positions, an atlas selection procedure is performed to reduce the computational cost of the following registration. Then the chosen atlas volumes are registered to the given CT image. Finally, voxelwise label voting is performed to determine the final segmentation result. The proposed method was evaluated using 50 torso CT datasets as well as the public SpineWeb dataset. As a result, a mean distance error of and a mean Dice coefficient of were achieved for the whole spine and the pelvic bones, which are competitive with other state-of-the-art methods. From the experimental results, the usefulness of the proposed segmentation method was validated.
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