Journal
MEDICAL IMAGING 2021: IMAGE PROCESSING
Volume 11596, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING
DOI: 10.1117/12.2582264
Keywords
Human brain; MRI; Intracranial volume; Synthetic CT
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Total intracranial volume (TIV) is the volume enclosed inside the cranium, used for evaluating neurodegenerative diseases. This study proposes a method to automatically generate TIV masks and obtain ground truth TIV masks using a semi-manual approach, saving time. The research utilizes conditional generative adversarial networks to synthesize CT images and generate TIV masks, with quantitative evaluation showing that the model can closely approximate the reference images.
Total intracranial volume (TIV) is the volume enclosed inside the cranium, inclusive of the meninges and the brain. TIV is extensively used to correct variations in inter-subject head size for the evaluation of neurodegenerative diseases. In this work, we present an automatic method to generate a TIV mask from MR images while synthesizing a CT image to be used in subsequent analysis. In addition, we propose an alternative way to obtain ground truth TIV masks using a semi-manual approach, which results in significant time savings. We train a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) using 2D MR slices to realize our tasks. The quantitative evaluation showed that the model was able to synthesize CT and generate TIV masks that closely approximate the reference images. This study also provides a comparison of the described method against skull stripping tools that output a mask enclosing the cranial volume, using MRI scan. In particular, highlighting the deficiencies in using such tools to approximate the volume using MRI scan.
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