Haoyan Guo1, Sicong Song1, Jinke Wang1, Maozu Guo2, Yuanzhi Cheng3, Yadong Wang1, Shinichi Tamura4. 1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. 2. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing, China. 3. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. yzcheng@hitwh.edu.cn. 4. Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Abstract
PURPOSE: For extremely close bones, their boundaries are weak and diffused due to strong interaction between adjacent surfaces. These factors prevent the accurate segmentation of bone structure. To alleviate these difficulties, we propose an automatic method for accurate bone segmentation. The method is based on a consideration of the 3D surface normal direction, which is used to detect the bone boundary in 3D CT images. METHODS: Our segmentation method is divided into three main stages. Firstly, we consider a surface tracing corrector combined with Gaussian standard deviation [Formula: see text] to improve the estimation of normal direction. Secondly, we determine an optimal value of [Formula: see text] for each surface point during this normal direction correction. Thirdly, we construct the 1D signal and refining the rough boundary along the corrected normal direction. The value of [Formula: see text] is used in the first directional derivative of the Gaussian to refine the location of the edge point along accurate normal direction. Because the normal direction is corrected and the value of [Formula: see text] is optimized, our method is robust to noise images and narrow joint space caused by joint degeneration. RESULTS: We applied our method to 15 wrists and 50 hip joints for evaluation. In the wrist segmentation, Dice overlap coefficient (DOC) of [Formula: see text]% was obtained by our method. In the hip segmentation, fivefold cross-validations were performed for two state-of-the-art methods. Forty hip joints were used for training in two state-of-the-art methods, 10 hip joints were used for testing and performing comparisons. The DOCs of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]%, and [Formula: see text]% were achieved by our method for the pelvis, the left femoral head and the right femoral head, respectively. CONCLUSION: Our method was shown to improve segmentation accuracy for several specific challenging cases. The results demonstrate that our approach achieved a superior accuracy over two state-of-the-art methods.
PURPOSE: For extremely close bones, their boundaries are weak and diffused due to strong interaction between adjacent surfaces. These factors prevent the accurate segmentation of bone structure. To alleviate these difficulties, we propose an automatic method for accurate bone segmentation. The method is based on a consideration of the 3D surface normal direction, which is used to detect the bone boundary in 3D CT images. METHODS: Our segmentation method is divided into three main stages. Firstly, we consider a surface tracing corrector combined with Gaussian standard deviation [Formula: see text] to improve the estimation of normal direction. Secondly, we determine an optimal value of [Formula: see text] for each surface point during this normal direction correction. Thirdly, we construct the 1D signal and refining the rough boundary along the corrected normal direction. The value of [Formula: see text] is used in the first directional derivative of the Gaussian to refine the location of the edge point along accurate normal direction. Because the normal direction is corrected and the value of [Formula: see text] is optimized, our method is robust to noise images and narrow joint space caused by joint degeneration. RESULTS: We applied our method to 15 wrists and 50 hip joints for evaluation. In the wrist segmentation, Dice overlap coefficient (DOC) of [Formula: see text]% was obtained by our method. In the hip segmentation, fivefold cross-validations were performed for two state-of-the-art methods. Forty hip joints were used for training in two state-of-the-art methods, 10 hip joints were used for testing and performing comparisons. The DOCs of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]%, and [Formula: see text]% were achieved by our method for the pelvis, the left femoral head and the right femoral head, respectively. CONCLUSION: Our method was shown to improve segmentation accuracy for several specific challenging cases. The results demonstrate that our approach achieved a superior accuracy over two state-of-the-art methods.
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Keywords:
Bone segmentation; CT images; Deformable model; Femur and pelvis; Image segmentation; Surface normal direction
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