Futoshi Yokota1, Yoshito Otake2, Masaki Takao3, Takeshi Ogawa3, Toshiyuki Okada4, Nobuhiko Sugano3, Yoshinobu Sato1. 1. Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan. 2. Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan. otake@is.naist.jp. 3. Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan. 4. Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Patient-specific quantitative assessments of muscle mass and biomechanical musculoskeletal simulations require segmentation of the muscles from medical images. The objective of this work is to automate muscle segmentation from CT data of the hip and thigh. METHOD: We propose a hierarchical multi-atlas method in which each hierarchy includes spatial normalization using simpler pre-segmented structures in order to reduce the inter-patient variability of more complex target structures. RESULTS: The proposed hierarchical method was evaluated with 19 muscles from 20 CT images of the hip and thigh using the manual segmentation by expert orthopedic surgeons as ground truth. The average symmetric surface distance was significantly reduced in the proposed method (1.53 mm) in comparison with the conventional method (2.65 mm). CONCLUSION: We demonstrated that the proposed hierarchical multi-atlas method improved the accuracy of muscle segmentation from CT images, in which large inter-patient variability and insufficient contrast were involved.
PURPOSE:Patient-specific quantitative assessments of muscle mass and biomechanical musculoskeletal simulations require segmentation of the muscles from medical images. The objective of this work is to automate muscle segmentation from CT data of the hip and thigh. METHOD: We propose a hierarchical multi-atlas method in which each hierarchy includes spatial normalization using simpler pre-segmented structures in order to reduce the inter-patient variability of more complex target structures. RESULTS: The proposed hierarchical method was evaluated with 19 muscles from 20 CT images of the hip and thigh using the manual segmentation by expert orthopedic surgeons as ground truth. The average symmetric surface distance was significantly reduced in the proposed method (1.53 mm) in comparison with the conventional method (2.65 mm). CONCLUSION: We demonstrated that the proposed hierarchical multi-atlas method improved the accuracy of muscle segmentation from CT images, in which large inter-patient variability and insufficient contrast were involved.
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