3D active shape models of human brain structures: application to patient-specific mesh generation

Nishant Ravikumar; Isaac Castro-Mateos; Jose M. Pozo; Alejandro F. Frangi; Zeike A. Taylor

doi:10.1117/12.2082599

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20 March 2015 3D active shape models of human brain structures: application to patient-specific mesh generation

Nishant Ravikumar, Isaac Castro-Mateos, Jose M. Pozo, Alejandro F. Frangi, Zeike A. Taylor

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Proceedings Volume 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 94142D (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082599
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The use of biomechanics-based numerical simulations has attracted growing interest in recent years for computer-aided diagnosis and treatment planning. With this in mind, a method for automatic mesh generation of brain structures of interest, using statistical models of shape (SSM) and appearance (SAM), for personalised computational modelling is presented. SSMs are constructed as point distribution models (PDMs) while SAMs are trained using intensity profiles sampled from a training set of T1-weighted magnetic resonance images. The brain structures of interest are, the cortical surface (cerebrum, cerebellum & brainstem), lateral ventricles and falx-cerebri membrane. Two methods for establishing correspondences across the training set of shapes are investigated and compared (based on SSM quality): the Coherent Point Drift (CPD) point-set registration method and B-spline mesh-to-mesh registration method. The MNI-305 (Montreal Neurological Institute) average brain atlas is used to generate the template mesh, which is deformed and registered to each training case, to establish correspondence over the training set of shapes. 18 healthy patients’ T1-weightedMRimages form the training set used to generate the SSM and SAM. Both model-training and model-fitting are performed over multiple brain structures simultaneously. Compactness and generalisation errors of the BSpline-SSM and CPD-SSM are evaluated and used to quantitatively compare the SSMs. Leave-one-out cross validation is used to evaluate SSM quality in terms of these measures. The mesh-based SSM is found to generalise better and is more compact, relative to the CPD-based SSM. Quality of the best-fit model instance from the trained SSMs, to test cases are evaluated using the Hausdorff distance (HD) and mean absolute surface distance (MASD) metrics.

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Nishant Ravikumar, Isaac Castro-Mateos, Jose M. Pozo, Alejandro F. Frangi, and Zeike A. Taylor "3D active shape models of human brain structures: application to patient-specific mesh generation", Proc. SPIE 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 94142D (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2082599

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