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A Robust Scheme of Vertebrae Segmentation for Medical Diagnosis
- Source :
- IEEE Access, Vol 7, Pp 120387-120398 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- IEEE, 2019.
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Abstract
- Precise and reliable segmentation of vertebral column is crucial for accurate computer aided diagnostic system (CADx). It assists the radiologists and doctors in identifying various pathologies in the vertebrae with better visualizations. Accurate segmentation of vertebral disks and bones from the medical images is a tough job and becomes more challenging when dealing with various deformities and pathologies. While remarkable success was achieved by deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) in medical image segmentation, it is still a difficult task for DCNNs to handle the medical image segmentation problems with various deformities and anatomical complexities. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient framework to address the subject problem by integrating a parametric level set approach in deep convolutional neural networks. The proposed scheme utilizes the probability map of pre-trained deep network to initialize the level set and it refines the output iteratively under the action of various forces to fine-tune the training of deep network. Thus the learning of the network is improved and the network is able to accommodate high topological shape variations in the vertebrae. This proposed method was evaluated on two different datasets. The first one is 20 publically available 3D spine MRI dataset to perform disc segmentation and the second one is 173 computed tomography scans for thoracolumbar (thoracic and lumbar) vertebrae segmentation. The dice score was found to be 90.37 ± 0.9 percent for disks segmentation and 94.7 ± 1.1 with ASSD of 0.1 ± 0.04 mm for thoracolumbar vertebrae segmentation. The results reveal that our proposed method is robust over multiple segmentations and outperformed the recently published state of art methods.
- Subjects :
- General Computer Science
Computer science
Convolutional neural network
Level set
Intervertebral disk
medicine
General Materials Science
Segmentation
Medical diagnosis
Parametric statistics
vertebrae segmentation
computer aided diagnosis
business.industry
General Engineering
deep learning
Pattern recognition
thoracolumbar vertebrae
computed tomography
Image segmentation
medicine.anatomical_structure
Computer-aided
Artificial intelligence
lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
business
lcsh:TK1-9971
Vertebral column
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21693536
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Access
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4080131652d2833b1e17df51f91c64a8