Multi-atlas segmentation enables robust multi-contrast MRI spleen segmentation for splenomegaly

Yuankai Huo; Jiaqi Liu; Zhoubing Xu; Robert L. Harrigan; Albert Assad; Richard G. Abramson; Bennett A. Landman

doi:10.1117/12.2254147

24 February 2017 Multi-atlas segmentation enables robust multi-contrast MRI spleen segmentation for splenomegaly

Yuankai Huo, Jiaqi Liu, Zhoubing Xu, Robert L. Harrigan, Albert Assad, Richard G. Abramson, Bennett A. Landman

Proceedings Volume 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing; 101330A (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254147
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Non-invasive spleen volume estimation is essential in detecting splenomegaly. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to facilitate splenomegaly diagnosis in vivo. However, achieving accurate spleen volume estimation from MR images is challenging given the great inter-subject variance of human abdomens and wide variety of clinical images/modalities. Multi-atlas segmentation has been shown to be a promising approach to handle heterogeneous data and difficult anatomical scenarios. In this paper, we propose to use multi-atlas segmentation frameworks for MRI spleen segmentation for splenomegaly. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that integrates multi-atlas segmentation for splenomegaly as seen on MRI. To address the particular concerns of spleen MRI, automated and novel semi-automated atlas selection approaches are introduced. The automated approach interactively selects a subset of atlases using selective and iterative method for performance level estimation (SIMPLE) approach. To further control the outliers, semi-automated craniocaudal length based SIMPLE atlas selection (L-SIMPLE) is proposed to introduce a spatial prior in a fashion to guide the iterative atlas selection. A dataset from a clinical trial containing 55 MRI volumes (28 T1 weighted and 27 T2 weighted) was used to evaluate different methods. Both automated and semi-automated methods achieved median DSC > 0.9. The outliers were alleviated by the L-SIMPLE (≈1 min manual efforts per scan), which achieved 0.9713 Pearson correlation compared with the manual segmentation. The results demonstrated that the multi-atlas segmentation is able to achieve accurate spleen segmentation from the multi-contrast splenomegaly MRI scans.

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Yuankai Huo, Jiaqi Liu, Zhoubing Xu, Robert L. Harrigan, Albert Assad, Richard G. Abramson, and Bennett A. Landman "Multi-atlas segmentation enables robust multi-contrast MRI spleen segmentation for splenomegaly", Proc. SPIE 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing, 101330A (24 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254147

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