Co-segmentation of functional and anatomical images

Ulas Bagci, Jayaram K. Udupa, Jianhua Yao, Daniel J. Mollura

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for segmenting functional and anatomical structures simultaneously. The proposed method unifies domains of anatomical and functional images (PET-CT), represents them in a product lattice, and performs simultaneous delineation of regions based on a random walk image segmentation. In addition, we propose a simple yet efficient object/background seed localization method, where background and foreground object cues are automatically obtained from PET images and propagated onto the corresponding anatomical images (CT). In our experiments, abnormal anatomies on PET-CT images from human subjects are segmented synergistically by the proposed fully automatic co-segmentation method with high precision (mean DSC of 91.44%) in seconds (avg. 40 seconds).

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI2012 - 15th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsNicholas Ayache, Herve Delingette, Polina Golland, Kensaku Mori
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages459-467
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783642334535
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012 - Nice, France
Duration: Oct 1 2012Oct 5 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7512 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2012
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityNice
Period10/1/1210/5/12

Keywords

  • Joint segmentation
  • Object detection
  • PET-CT
  • Random walk

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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