Example based lesion segmentation

Snehashis Roy; Qing He; Aaron Carass; Amod Jog; Jennifer L. Cuzzocreo; Daniel S. Reich; Jerry Prince; Dzung Pham

doi:10.1117/12.2043917

21 March 2014 Example based lesion segmentation

Snehashis Roy, Qing He, Aaron Carass, Amod Jog, Jennifer L. Cuzzocreo, Daniel S. Reich, Jerry Prince, Dzung Pham

Proceedings Volume 9034, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Processing; 90341Y (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043917
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Automatic and accurate detection of white matter lesions is a significant step toward understanding the progression of many diseases, like Alzheimer’s disease or multiple sclerosis. Multi-modal MR images are often used to segment T₂ white matter lesions that can represent regions of demyelination or ischemia. Some automated lesion segmentation methods describe the lesion intensities using generative models, and then classify the lesions with some combination of heuristics and cost minimization. In contrast, we propose a patch-based method, in which lesions are found using examples from an atlas containing multi-modal MR images and corresponding manual delineations of lesions. Patches from subject MR images are matched to patches from the atlas and lesion memberships are found based on patch similarity weights. We experiment on 43 subjects with MS, whose scans show various levels of lesion-load. We demonstrate significant improvement in Dice coefficient and total lesion volume compared to a state of the art model-based lesion segmentation method, indicating more accurate delineation of lesions.

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Snehashis Roy, Qing He, Aaron Carass, Amod Jog, Jennifer L. Cuzzocreo, Daniel S. Reich, Jerry Prince, and Dzung Pham "Example based lesion segmentation", Proc. SPIE 9034, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Processing, 90341Y (21 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043917

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