Multi-organ segmentation with missing organs in abdominal CT images

Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2012;15(Pt 3):418-25. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-33454-2_52.

Abstract

Currently, multi-organ segmentation (MOS) in abdominal CT can fail to handle clinical patient population with missing organs due to surgical resection. In order to enable the state-of-the-art MOS for these clinically important cases, we propose (1) automatic missing organ detection (MOD) by testing abnormality of post-surgical organ motion and organ-specific intensity homogeneity, and (2) atlas-based MOS of 10 abdominal organs that handles missing organs automatically. The proposed methods are validated with 44 abdominal CT scans including 9 diseased cases with surgical organ resections, resulting in 93.3% accuracy for MOD and improved overall segmentation accuracy by the proposed MOS method when tested on difficult diseased cases,

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Humans
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Radiographic Image Enhancement / methods
  • Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Radiography, Abdominal / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Viscera / diagnostic imaging*
  • Viscera / surgery*