Hierarchical segmentation and identification of thoracic vertebra using learning-based edge detection and coarse-to-fine deformable model

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Precise segmentation and identification of thoracic vertebrae is important for many medical imaging applications whereas it remains challenging due to vertebra's complex shape and varied neighboring structures. In this paper, a new method based on learned bone-structure edge detectors and a coarse-to-fine deformable surface model is proposed to segment and identify vertebrae in 3D CT thoracic images. In the training stage, a discriminative classifier for object-specific edge detection is trained using steerable features and statistical shape models for 12 thoracic vertebrae are also learned. In the run-time, we design a new coarse-to-fine, two-stage segmentation strategy: subregions of a vertebra first deforms together as a group; then vertebra mesh vertices in a smaller neighborhood move group-wise, to progressively drive the deformable model towards edge response maps by optimizing a probability cost function. In this manner, the smoothness and topology of vertebra's shapes are guaranteed. This algorithm performs successfully with reliable mean point-to-surface errors 0.95 ±0.91 mm on 40 volumes. Consequently a vertebra identification scheme is also proposed via mean surface meshes matching. We achieve a success rate of 73.1% using a single vertebra, and over 95% for 8 or more vertebra which is comparable or slightly better than state-of-the-art [1]. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.

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Ma, J., Lu, L., Zhan, Y., Zhou, X., Salganicoff, M., & Krishnan, A. (2010). Hierarchical segmentation and identification of thoracic vertebra using learning-based edge detection and coarse-to-fine deformable model. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6361 LNCS, pp. 19–27). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15705-9_3

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