A new osteophyte segmentation method with applications to an anterior cruciate ligament transection rabbit femur model via micro-CT imaging

G. Liang; J. M. Elkins; A. Coimbra; L. T. Duong; D. S. Williams; M. Sonka; P. K. Saha

doi:10.1117/12.844440

12 March 2010 A new osteophyte segmentation method with applications to an anterior cruciate ligament transection rabbit femur model via micro-CT imaging

G. Liang, J. M. Elkins, A. Coimbra, L. T. Duong, D. S. Williams, M. Sonka, P. K. Saha

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Proceedings Volume 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing; 76234F (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844440
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Osteophyte is an additional bony growth on a normal bone surface limiting or stopping motion in a deteriorating joint. Detection and quantification of osteophytes from CT images is helpful in assessing disease status as well as treatment and surgery planning. However, it is difficult to segment osteophytes from healthy bones using simple thresholding or edge/texture features in CT imaging. Here, we present a new method, based on active shape model (ASM), to solve this problem and evaluate its application to ex vivo μCT images in an ACLT rabbit femur model. The common idea behind most ASM based segmentation methods is to first build a parametric shape model from a training dataset and during application, find a shape instance from the model that optimally fits to target image. However, it poses a fundamental difficulty for the current application because a diseased bone shape is significantly altered at regions with osteophyte deposition misguiding an ASM method that eventually leads to suboptimum segmentation results. Here, we introduce a new partial ASM method that uses bone shape over healthy regions and extrapolate its shape over diseased region following the underlying shape model. Once the healthy bone region is detected, osteophyte is segmented by subtracting partial-ASM derived shape from the overall diseased shape. Also, a new semi-automatic method is presented in this paper for efficiently building a 3D shape model for rabbit femur. The method has been applied to μCT images of 2-, 4-, and 8-week post ACLT and sham-treated rabbit femurs and results of reproducibility and sensitivity analyses of the new osteophyte segmentation method are presented.

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G. Liang, J. M. Elkins, A. Coimbra, L. T. Duong, D. S. Williams, M. Sonka, and P. K. Saha "A new osteophyte segmentation method with applications to an anterior cruciate ligament transection rabbit femur model via micro-CT imaging", Proc. SPIE 7623, Medical Imaging 2010: Image Processing, 76234F (12 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844440

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Image segmentation

Bone

3D modeling

Computed tomography

Data modeling

3D image processing

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