Model-based segmentation of abdominal aortic aneurysms in CTA images

Marleen de Bruijne; Bram van Ginneken; Wiro J. Niessen; Marco Loog; Max A. Viergever

doi:10.1117/12.481367

15 May 2003 Model-based segmentation of abdominal aortic aneurysms in CTA images

Marleen de Bruijne, Bram van Ginneken, Wiro J. Niessen, Marco Loog, Max A. Viergever

Proceedings Volume 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.481367
Event: Medical Imaging 2003, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Segmentation of thrombus in abdominal aortic aneurysms is complicated by regions of low boundary contrast and by the presence of many neighboring structures in close proximity to the aneurysm wall. We present an automated method that is similar to the well known Active Shape Models (ASM), combining a three-dimensional shape model with a one-dimensional boundary appearance model. Our contribution is twofold: we developed a non-parametric appearance modeling scheme that effectively deals with a highly varying background, and we propose a way of generalizing models of curvilinear structures from small training sets. In contrast with the conventional ASM approach, the new appearance model trains on both true and false examples of boundary profiles. The probability that a given image profile belongs to the boundary is obtained using k nearest neighbor (kNN) probability density estimation. The performance of this scheme is compared to that of original ASMs, which minimize the Mahalanobis distance to the average true profile in the training set. The generalizability of the shape model is improved by modeling the objects axis deformation independent of its cross-sectional deformation. A leave-one-out experiment was performed on 23 datasets. Segmentation using the kNN appearance model significantly outperformed the original ASM scheme; average volume errors were 5.9% and 46% respectively.

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Marleen de Bruijne, Bram van Ginneken, Wiro J. Niessen, Marco Loog, and Max A. Viergever "Model-based segmentation of abdominal aortic aneurysms in CTA images", Proc. SPIE 5032, Medical Imaging 2003: Image Processing, (15 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.481367

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