Atlas-registration based image segmentation of MRI human thigh muscles in 3D space

Ezak Ahmad; Moi Hoon Yap; Hans Degens; Jamie S. McPhee

doi:10.1117/12.2043606

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11 March 2014 Atlas-registration based image segmentation of MRI human thigh muscles in 3D space

Ezak Ahmad, Moi Hoon Yap, Hans Degens, Jamie S. McPhee

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Proceedings Volume 9037, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 90371L (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043606
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

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Automatic segmentation of anatomic structures of magnetic resonance thigh scans can be a challenging task due to the potential lack of precisely defined muscle boundaries and issues related to intensity inhomogeneity or bias field across an image. In this paper, we demonstrate a combination framework of atlas construction and image registration methods to propagate the desired region of interest (ROI) between atlas image and the targeted MRI thigh scans for quadriceps muscles, femur cortical layer and bone marrow segmentations. The proposed system employs a semi-automatic segmentation method on an initial image in one dataset (from a series of images). The segmented initial image is then used as an atlas image to automate the segmentation of other images in the MRI scans (3-D space). The processes include: ROI labeling, atlas construction and registration, and morphological transform correspondence pixels (in terms of feature and intensity value) between the atlas (template) image and the targeted image based on the prior atlas information and non-rigid image registration methods.

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Ezak Ahmad, Moi Hoon Yap, Hans Degens, and Jamie S. McPhee "Atlas-registration based image segmentation of MRI human thigh muscles in 3D space", Proc. SPIE 9037, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 90371L (11 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043606

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