Automated diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases and emphysema in MDCT imaging

Catalin Fetita; Kuang-Che Chang Chien; Pierre-Yves Brillet; Françoise Prêteux

doi:10.1117/12.734147

17 September 2007 Automated diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases and emphysema in MDCT imaging

Catalin Fetita, Kuang-Che Chang Chien, Pierre-Yves Brillet, Françoise Prêteux

Proceedings Volume 6700, Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, Coding, and Encryption X, with Applications; 67000G (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.734147
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Diffuse lung diseases (DLD) include a heterogeneous group of non-neoplasic disease resulting from damage to the lung parenchyma by varying patterns of inflammation. Characterization and quantification of DLD severity using MDCT, mainly in interstitial lung diseases and emphysema, is an important issue in clinical research for the evaluation of new therapies. This paper develops a 3D automated approach for detection and diagnosis of diffuse lung diseases such as fibrosis/honeycombing, ground glass and emphysema. The proposed methodology combines multi-resolution 3D morphological filtering (exploiting the sup-constrained connection cost operator) and graph-based classification for a full characterization of the parenchymal tissue. The morphological filtering performs a multi-level segmentation of the low- and medium-attenuated lung regions as well as their classification with respect to a granularity criterion (multi-resolution analysis). The original intensity range of the CT data volume is thus reduced in the segmented data to a number of levels equal to the resolution depth used (generally ten levels). The specificity of such morphological filtering is to extract tissue patterns locally contrasting with their neighborhood and of size inferior to the resolution depth, while preserving their original shape. A multi-valued hierarchical graph describing the segmentation result is built-up according to the resolution level and the adjacency of the different segmented components. The graph nodes are then enriched with the textural information carried out by their associated components. A graph analysis-reorganization based on the nodes attributes delivers the final classification of the lung parenchyma in normal and ILD/emphysematous regions. It also makes possible to discriminate between different types, or development stages, among the same class of diseases.

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Catalin Fetita, Kuang-Che Chang Chien, Pierre-Yves Brillet, and Françoise Prêteux "Automated diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases and emphysema in MDCT imaging", Proc. SPIE 6700, Mathematics of Data/Image Pattern Recognition, Compression, Coding, and Encryption X, with Applications, 67000G (17 September 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.734147

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