Knee cartilage extraction and bone-cartilage interface analysis from 3D MRI data sets

Jose Gerardo Tamez-Pena; Monica Barbu-McInnis; Saara Totterman

doi:10.1117/12.535902

12 May 2004 Knee cartilage extraction and bone-cartilage interface analysis from 3D MRI data sets

Jose Gerardo Tamez-Pena, Monica Barbu-McInnis, Saara Totterman

Proceedings Volume 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535902
Event: Medical Imaging 2004, 2004, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This works presents a robust methodology for the analysis of the knee joint cartilage and the knee bone-cartilage interface from fused MRI sets. The proposed approach starts by fusing a set of two 3D MR images the knee. Although the proposed method is not pulse sequence dependent, the first sequence should be programmed to achieve good contrast between bone and cartilage. The recommended second pulse sequence is one that maximizes the contrast between cartilage and surrounding soft tissues. Once both pulse sequences are fused, the proposed bone-cartilage analysis is done in four major steps. First, an unsupervised segmentation algorithm is used to extract the femur, the tibia, and the patella. Second, a knowledge based feature extraction algorithm is used to extract the femoral, tibia and patellar cartilages. Third, a trained user corrects cartilage miss-classifications done by the automated extracted cartilage. Finally, the final segmentation is the revisited using an unsupervised MAP voxel relaxation algorithm. This final segmentation has the property that includes the extracted bone tissue as well as all the cartilage tissue. This is an improvement over previous approaches where only the cartilage was segmented. Furthermore, this approach yields very reproducible segmentation results in a set of scan-rescan experiments. When these segmentations were coupled with a partial volume compensated surface extraction algorithm the volume, area, thickness measurements shows precisions around 2.6%

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Jose Gerardo Tamez-Pena, Monica Barbu-McInnis, and Saara Totterman "Knee cartilage extraction and bone-cartilage interface analysis from 3D MRI data sets", Proc. SPIE 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, (12 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535902

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