Acetabular rim and surface segmentation for hip surgery planning and dysplasia evaluation

Sovira Tan; Jianhua Yao; Lawrence Yao; Ronald M. Summers; Michael M. Ward

doi:10.1117/12.769550

17 March 2008 Acetabular rim and surface segmentation for hip surgery planning and dysplasia evaluation

Sovira Tan, Jianhua Yao, Lawrence Yao, Ronald M. Summers, Michael M. Ward

Proceedings Volume 6918, Medical Imaging 2008: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling; 69181N (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769550
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Knowledge of the acetabular rim and surface can be invaluable for hip surgery planning and dysplasia evaluation. The acetabular rim can also be used as a landmark for registration purposes. At the present time acetabular features are mostly extracted manually at great cost of time and human labor. Using a recent level set algorithm that can evolve on the surface of a 3D object represented by a triangular mesh we automatically extracted rims and surfaces of acetabulae. The level set is guided by curvature features on the mesh. It can segment portions of a surface that are bounded by a line of extremal curvature (ridgeline or crestline). The rim of the acetabulum is such an extremal curvature line. Our material consists of eight hemi-pelvis surfaces. The algorithm is initiated by putting a small circle (level set seed) at the center of the acetabular surface. Because this surface distinctively has the form of a cup we were able to use the Shape Index feature to automatically extract an approximate center. The circle then expands and deforms so as to take the shape of the acetabular rim. The results were visually inspected. Only minor errors were detected. The algorithm also proved to be robust. Seed placement was satisfactory for the eight hemi-pelvis surfaces without changing any parameters. For the level set evolution we were able to use a single set of parameters for seven out of eight surfaces.

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Sovira Tan, Jianhua Yao, Lawrence Yao, Ronald M. Summers, and Michael M. Ward "Acetabular rim and surface segmentation for hip surgery planning and dysplasia evaluation", Proc. SPIE 6918, Medical Imaging 2008: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, 69181N (17 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769550

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