Bimodal CT/MRI-based segmentation method for intervertebral disc boundary extraction
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2020Γλώσσα
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Intervertebral disc (IVD) localization and segmentation have triggered intensive research efforts in the medical image analysis community, since IVD abnormalities are strong indicators of various spinal cord-related pathologies. Despite the intensive research efforts to address IVD boundary extraction based on MR images, the potential of bimodal approaches, which benefit from complementary information derived from both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), has not yet been fully realized. Furthermore, most existing approaches rely on manual intervention or on learning, although sufficiently large and labelled 3D datasets are not always available. In this light, this work introduces a bimodal segmentation method for vertebrae and IVD boundary extraction, which requires a limited amount of intervention and is not based on learning. The proposed method comprises various image processing and analysis stages, including CT/MRI registration, Otsu-based thresholding and Chan-Vese-based segmentation. The method was applied on 98 expert-annotated pairs of CT andMRspinal cord images with varying slice thicknesses and pixel sizes, which were obtained from 7 patients using different scanners. The experimental results had a Dice similarity coefficient equal to 94.77(%) for CT and 86.26(%) for MRI and a Hausdorff distance equal to 4.4 pixels for CT and 4.5 pixels for MRI. Experimental comparisons with state-of-the-art CT and MRI segmentation methods lead to the conclusion that the proposed method provides a reliable alternative for vertebrae and IVD boundary extraction. Moreover, the segmentation results are utilized to perform a bimodal visualization of the spine, which could potentially aid differential diagnosis with respect to several spine-related pathologies. © 2020 by the authors.
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