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Automatic extraction of anatomical landmarks from medical image data: An evaluation of different methods

Automatic extraction of anatomical landmarks from medical image data: An evaluation of different methods
Automatic extraction of anatomical landmarks from medical image data: An evaluation of different methods

This work presents three different methods for automatic detection of anatomical landmarks in CT data, namely for the left and right anterior superior iliac spines and the pubic symphysis. The methods exhibit different degrees of generality in terms of portability to other anatomical landmarks and require a different amount of training data. The first method is problem-specific and is based on the convex hull of the pelvis. Method two is a more generic approach based on a statistical shape model including the landmarks of interest for every training shape. With our third method we present the most generic approach, where only a small set of training landmarks is required. Those landmarks are transferred to the patient specific geometry based on Mean Value Coordinates (MVCs). The methods work on surfaces of the pelvis that need to be extracted beforehand. We perform this geometry reconstruction with our previously introduced fully automatic segmentation framework for the pelvic bones. With a focus on the accuracy of our novel MVC-based approach, we evaluate and compare our methods on 100 clinical CT datasets, for which gold standard landmarks were defined manually by multiple observers.

Anatomical landmarks, Biomedical measurements, CT, Landmark detection
538-541
IEEE
Seim, Heiko
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Kainmueller, Dagmar
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Heller, Markus
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Zachow, Stefan
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Hege, Hans Christian
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Seim, Heiko
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Kainmueller, Dagmar
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Heller, Markus
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Zachow, Stefan
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Hege, Hans Christian
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Seim, Heiko, Kainmueller, Dagmar, Heller, Markus, Zachow, Stefan and Hege, Hans Christian (2009) Automatic extraction of anatomical landmarks from medical image data: An evaluation of different methods. In Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009. IEEE. pp. 538-541 . (doi:10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193103).

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Abstract

This work presents three different methods for automatic detection of anatomical landmarks in CT data, namely for the left and right anterior superior iliac spines and the pubic symphysis. The methods exhibit different degrees of generality in terms of portability to other anatomical landmarks and require a different amount of training data. The first method is problem-specific and is based on the convex hull of the pelvis. Method two is a more generic approach based on a statistical shape model including the landmarks of interest for every training shape. With our third method we present the most generic approach, where only a small set of training landmarks is required. Those landmarks are transferred to the patient specific geometry based on Mean Value Coordinates (MVCs). The methods work on surfaces of the pelvis that need to be extracted beforehand. We perform this geometry reconstruction with our previously introduced fully automatic segmentation framework for the pelvic bones. With a focus on the accuracy of our novel MVC-based approach, we evaluate and compare our methods on 100 clinical CT datasets, for which gold standard landmarks were defined manually by multiple observers.

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Published date: 2009
Venue - Dates: 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, , Boston, United States, 2009-06-28 - 2009-07-01
Keywords: Anatomical landmarks, Biomedical measurements, CT, Landmark detection

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Local EPrints ID: 415931
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/415931
PURE UUID: 6a60ffc9-932f-4e02-90ff-802207b015bf
ORCID for Markus Heller: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7879-1135

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Date deposited: 28 Nov 2017 17:31
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:11

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Author: Heiko Seim
Author: Dagmar Kainmueller
Author: Markus Heller ORCID iD
Author: Stefan Zachow
Author: Hans Christian Hege

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