Automatic anatomy recognition in post-tonsillectomy MR images of obese children with OSAS

Yubing Tong; Jayaram K. Udupa; Dewey Odhner; Sanghun Sin; Raanan Arens

doi:10.1117/12.2081912

20 March 2015 Automatic anatomy recognition in post-tonsillectomy MR images of obese children with OSAS

Yubing Tong, Jayaram K. Udupa, Dewey Odhner, Sanghun Sin, Raanan Arens

Proceedings Volume 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 94140Z (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081912
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Automatic Anatomy Recognition (AAR) is a recently developed approach for the automatic whole body wide organ segmentation. We previously tested that methodology on image cases with some pathology where the organs were not distorted significantly. In this paper, we present an advancement of AAR to handle organs which may have been modified or resected by surgical intervention. We focus on MRI of the neck in pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS). The proposed method consists of an AAR step followed by support vector machine techniques to detect the presence/absence of organs. The AAR step employs a hierarchical organization of the organs for model building. For each organ, a fuzzy model over a population is built. The model of the body region is then described in terms of the fuzzy models and a host of other descriptors which include parent to offspring relationship estimated over the population. Organs are recognized following the organ hierarchy by using an optimal threshold based search. The SVM step subsequently checks for evidence of the presence of organs. Experimental results show that AAR techniques can be combined with machine learning strategies within the AAR recognition framework for good performance in recognizing missing organs, in our case missing tonsils in post-tonsillectomy images as well as in simulating tonsillectomy images. The previous recognition performance is maintained achieving an organ localization accuracy of within 1 voxel when the organ is actually not removed. To our knowledge, no methods have been reported to date for handling significantly deformed or missing organs, especially in neck MRI.

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Yubing Tong, Jayaram K. Udupa, Dewey Odhner, Sanghun Sin, and Raanan Arens "Automatic anatomy recognition in post-tonsillectomy MR images of obese children with OSAS", Proc. SPIE 9414, Medical Imaging 2015: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 94140Z (20 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081912

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