Spatio-temporal modeling of lung images for cancer detection

Oncol Rep. 2006:15 Spec no.:1085-9. doi: 10.3892/or.15.4.1085.

Abstract

Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI) is an important tool in assessing tumor angiogenesis for the early detection of lung cancer. This study presents a novel integrated framework for spatio-temporal modeling of pulmonary nodules in pMRI image sequences. After localizing a nodule region in each image, we perform segmentation in the region to extract the nodule boundary, then use thin-plate spline interpolation for nodule registration along the temporal dimension. The resulting spatio-temporal model can lead to many types of nodule characterization, e.g. a time-intensity profile of a nodule region, and be used to capture important angiogenic patterns in the lung that can distinguish between cancer and benign nodules and assist in early detection.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted*
  • Lung Diseases / diagnosis
  • Lung Diseases / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Angiography / statistics & numerical data*
  • Models, Theoretical