Shouhei Hanaoka1,2, Yoshiyasu Nakano3, Mitsutaka Nemoto4, Yukihiro Nomura4, Tomomi Takenaga4, Soichiro Miki4, Takeharu Yoshikawa4, Naoto Hayashi4, Yoshitaka Masutani5, Akinobu Shimizu6. 1. Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan. hanaoka-tky@umin.ac.jp. 2. Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. hanaoka-tky@umin.ac.jp. 3. Department of Radiology, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan. 4. Department of Computational Diagnostic Radiology and Preventive Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. 5. Department of Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan. 6. Institute of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The anatomical anomaly of the number of vertebral bones is one of the major anomalies in the human body, which can cause confusion of the spinal level in, for example, surgery. The aim of this study is to develop an automatic detection system for this type of anomaly. METHODS: We utilized our previously reported anatomical landmark detection system for this anomaly detection problem. This system uses a landmark point distribution model (L-PDM) to find multiple landmark positions. The L-PDM is a statistical probabilistic model of all landmark positions in the human body, including five landmarks for each vertebra. Given a new volume, the proposed algorithm applies five hypotheses (normal, 11 or 13 thoracic vertebrae, 4 or 6 lumbar vertebrae) to the given spine and attempts to detect all the landmarks. Then, the most plausible hypothesis with the largest posterior likelihood is selected as the anatomy detection result. RESULTS: The proposed method was evaluated using 300 neck-to-pelvis CT datasets. For normal subjects, the vertebrae of 211/217 (97.2%) of the subjects were successfully determined as normal. For subjects with 23 or 25 vertebrae without a transitional vertebra (TV), the vertebrae of 9/10 (90%) of the subjects were successfully determined. For subjects with TV, the vertebrae of 71/73 (97.3%) of subjects were judged as partially successfully determined. CONCLUSION: Our algorithm successfully determined the number of vertebrae, and the feasibility of our proposed system was validated.
PURPOSE: The anatomical anomaly of the number of vertebral bones is one of the major anomalies in the human body, which can cause confusion of the spinal level in, for example, surgery. The aim of this study is to develop an automatic detection system for this type of anomaly. METHODS: We utilized our previously reported anatomical landmark detection system for this anomaly detection problem. This system uses a landmark point distribution model (L-PDM) to find multiple landmark positions. The L-PDM is a statistical probabilistic model of all landmark positions in the human body, including five landmarks for each vertebra. Given a new volume, the proposed algorithm applies five hypotheses (normal, 11 or 13 thoracic vertebrae, 4 or 6 lumbar vertebrae) to the given spine and attempts to detect all the landmarks. Then, the most plausible hypothesis with the largest posterior likelihood is selected as the anatomy detection result. RESULTS: The proposed method was evaluated using 300 neck-to-pelvis CT datasets. For normal subjects, the vertebrae of 211/217 (97.2%) of the subjects were successfully determined as normal. For subjects with 23 or 25 vertebrae without a transitional vertebra (TV), the vertebrae of 9/10 (90%) of the subjects were successfully determined. For subjects with TV, the vertebrae of 71/73 (97.3%) of subjects were judged as partially successfully determined. CONCLUSION: Our algorithm successfully determined the number of vertebrae, and the feasibility of our proposed system was validated.
Authors: B Michael Kelm; Michael Wels; S Kevin Zhou; Sascha Seifert; Michael Suehling; Yefeng Zheng; Dorin Comaniciu Journal: Med Image Anal Date: 2012-12-01 Impact factor: 8.545