Whole vertebral bone segmentation method with a statistical intensity-shape model based approach

Shouhei Hanaoka; Karl Fritscher; Benedikt Schuler; Yoshitaka Masutani; Naoto Hayashi; Kuni Ohtomo; Rainer Schubert

doi:10.1117/12.878151

14 March 2011 Whole vertebral bone segmentation method with a statistical intensity-shape model based approach

Shouhei Hanaoka, Karl Fritscher, Benedikt Schuler, Yoshitaka Masutani, Naoto Hayashi, Kuni Ohtomo, Rainer Schubert

Proceedings Volume 7962, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing; 796242 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878151
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

An automatic segmentation algorithm for the vertebrae in human body CT images is presented. Especially we focused on constructing and utilizing 4 different statistical intensity-shape combined models for the cervical, upper / lower thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, respectively. For this purpose, two previously reported methods were combined: a deformable model-based initial segmentation method and a statistical shape-intensity model-based precise segmentation method. The former is used as a pre-processing to detect the position and orientation of each vertebra, which determines the initial condition for the latter precise segmentation method. The precise segmentation method needs prior knowledge on both the intensities and the shapes of the objects. After PCA analysis of such shape-intensity expressions obtained from training image sets, vertebrae were parametrically modeled as a linear combination of the principal component vectors. The segmentation of each target vertebra was performed as fitting of this parametric model to the target image by maximum a posteriori estimation, combined with the geodesic active contour method. In the experimental result by using 10 cases, the initial segmentation was successful in 6 cases and only partially failed in 4 cases (2 in the cervical area and 2 in the lumbo-sacral). In the precise segmentation, the mean error distances were 2.078, 1.416, 0.777, 0.939 mm for cervical, upper and lower thoracic, lumbar spines, respectively. In conclusion, our automatic segmentation algorithm for the vertebrae in human body CT images showed a fair performance for cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae.

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Shouhei Hanaoka, Karl Fritscher, Benedikt Schuler, Yoshitaka Masutani, Naoto Hayashi, Kuni Ohtomo, and Rainer Schubert "Whole vertebral bone segmentation method with a statistical intensity-shape model based approach", Proc. SPIE 7962, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing, 796242 (14 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878151

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