Semiautomatic tumor segmentation with multimodal images in a conditional random field framework

Yu-Chi Hu; Michael Grossberg; Gikas Mageras

doi:10.1117/1.JMI.3.2.024503

28 June 2016 Semiautomatic tumor segmentation with multimodal images in a conditional random field framework

Yu-Chi Hu, Michael Grossberg, Gikas Mageras

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Journal of Medical Imaging, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 024503 (June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.3.2.024503

Abstract

Volumetric medical images of a single subject can be acquired using different imaging modalities, such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography. In this work, we present a semiautomatic segmentation algorithm that can leverage the synergies between different image modalities while integrating interactive human guidance. The algorithm provides a statistical segmentation framework partly automating the segmentation task while still maintaining critical human oversight. The statistical models presented are trained interactively using simple brush strokes to indicate tumor and nontumor tissues and using intermediate results within a patient’s image study. To accomplish the segmentation, we construct the energy function in the conditional random field (CRF) framework. For each slice, the energy function is set using the estimated probabilities from both user brush stroke data and prior approved segmented slices within a patient study. The progressive segmentation is obtained using a graph-cut-based minimization. Although no similar semiautomated algorithm is currently available, we evaluated our method with an MRI data set from Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society multimodal brain segmentation challenge (BRATS 2012 and 2013) against a similar fully automatic method based on CRF and a semiautomatic method based on grow-cut, and our method shows superior performance.

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Yu-Chi Hu, Michael Grossberg, and Gikas Mageras "Semiautomatic tumor segmentation with multimodal images in a conditional random field framework," Journal of Medical Imaging 3(2), 024503 (28 June 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JMI.3.2.024503

Published: 28 June 2016

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