Journal
2020 IEEE 17TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING (ISBI 2020)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 736-740Publisher
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/isbi45749.2020.9098675
Keywords
Scoliosis; keypoint; landmark detection
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Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a lifetime disease that arises in children. Accurate estimation of Cobb angles of the scoliosis is essential for clinicians to make diagnosis and treatment decisions. The Cobb angles are measured according to the vertebrae landmarks. Existing regression-based methods for the vertebra landmark detection typically suffer from large dense mapping parameters and inaccurate landmark localization. The segmentation-based methods tend to predict connected or corrupted vertebra masks. In this paper, we propose a novel vertebra-focused landmark detection method. Our model first localizes the vertebra centers, based on which it then traces the four corner landmarks of the vertebra through the learned corner offset. In this way, our method is able to keep the order of the landmarks. The comparison results demonstrate the merits of our method in both Cobb angle measurement and landmark detection on low-contrast and ambiguous X-ray images.
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