Quantitative analysis of airway abnormalities in CT

Jens Petersen; Pechin Lo; Mads Nielsen; Goutham Edula; Haseem Ashraf; Asger Dirksen; Marleen de Bruijne

doi:10.1117/12.843937

9 March 2010 Quantitative analysis of airway abnormalities in CT

Jens Petersen, Pechin Lo, Mads Nielsen, Goutham Edula, Haseem Ashraf, Asger Dirksen, Marleen de Bruijne

Proceedings Volume 7624, Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 76241S (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843937
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A coupled surface graph cut algorithm for airway wall segmentation from Computed Tomography (CT) images is presented. Using cost functions that highlight both inner and outer wall borders, the method combines the search for both borders into one graph cut. The proposed method is evaluated on 173 manually segmented images extracted from 15 different subjects and shown to give accurate results, with 37% less errors than the Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) algorithm and 62% less than a similar graph cut method without coupled surfaces. Common measures of airway wall thickness such as the Interior Area (IA) and Wall Area percentage (WA%) was measured by the proposed method on a total of 723 CT scans from a lung cancer screening study. These measures were significantly different for participants with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) compared to asymptomatic participants. Furthermore, reproducibility was good as confirmed by repeat scans and the measures correlated well with the outcomes of pulmonary function tests, demonstrating the use of the algorithm as a COPD diagnostic tool. Additionally, a new measure of airway wall thickness is proposed, Normalized Wall Intensity Sum (NWIS). NWIS is shown to correlate better with lung function test values and to be more reproducible than previous measures IA, WA% and airway wall thickness at a lumen perimeter of 10 mm (PI10).

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Jens Petersen, Pechin Lo, Mads Nielsen, Goutham Edula, Haseem Ashraf, Asger Dirksen, and Marleen de Bruijne "Quantitative analysis of airway abnormalities in CT", Proc. SPIE 7624, Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 76241S (9 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.843937

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