Level sets and shape models for segmentation of cardiac perfusion MRI

Lucas Lorenzo; Robert S. MacLeod; Ross T. Whitaker; Ganesh Adluru; Edward V. R. DiBella

doi:10.1117/12.653364

15 March 2006 Level sets and shape models for segmentation of cardiac perfusion MRI

Lucas Lorenzo, Robert S. MacLeod, Ross T. Whitaker, Ganesh Adluru, Edward V. R. DiBella

Proceedings Volume 6144, Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing; 614445 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.653364
Event: Medical Imaging, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Dynamic MRI perfusion studies have proven to be useful for detecting and characterizing myocardial ischemia. Accurate segmentation of the myocardium in the dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI images is an important step for estimation of regional perfusion. Although a great deal of research has been done for segmenting MRI scans of heart wall motion, relatively little work has been done to segment DCE MRI studies. We propose a new semi-automatic robust level set based segmentation technique that uses both spatial and temporal information. The evolution of level sets is based on a spectral speed function which is a function of the Mahalanobis distance between each pixel's time curve and the time curves of user-determined seed points in the myocardium. A curvature penalty term is included in the evolution of the contours to ensure smoothness of the evolving level sets. We also make use of shape information to constrain the evolution of the level sets. Shape models were created by using signed distance maps from manually segmented images and performing principal component analysis. Thus the algorithm has the qualities of evolving an active contour both locally, based on image values and curvature, and globally to a maximum a posteriori estimate of the left ventricle shape in order to segment the left ventricle myocardium from DCE cardiac MRI images. The algorithm was tested on 16 DCE MRI datasets and compared to manual segmentations. The results matched the manual segmentations.

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Lucas Lorenzo, Robert S. MacLeod, Ross T. Whitaker, Ganesh Adluru, and Edward V. R. DiBella "Level sets and shape models for segmentation of cardiac perfusion MRI", Proc. SPIE 6144, Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing, 614445 (15 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.653364

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