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"Automatic Lung Lobe Segmentation of COPD Patients using Iterative B-Spline Fitting"
Denis P. Shamonin, Marius Staring, M. Els Bakker, Changyan Xiao, Jan Stolk, Johan H.C. Reiber and Berend C. Stoel
Abstract
We present an automatic lung lobe segmentation algorithm for COPD patients. The method enhances fissures, removes unlikely fissure candidates, after which a B-spline is fitted iteratively through the remaining candidate objects. The iterative fitting approach circumvents the need to classify each object as being part of the fissure or being noise, and allows the fissure to be detected in multiple disconnected parts. This property is beneficial for good performance in patient data, containing incomplete and disease-affected fissures. The proposed algorithm is tested on 22 COPD patients, resulting in accurate lobe-based densitometry, and a median overlap of the fissure (defined 3 voxels wide) with an expert ground truth of 0.65, 0.54 and 0.44 for the three main fissures. This compares to complete lobe overlaps of 0.99, 0.98, 0.98, 0.97 and 0.87 for the five main lobes, showing promise for lobe segmentation on data of patients with moderate to severe COPD.
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BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{Shamonin:2012, |
author |
= {Shamonin, Denis P. and Staring, Marius and Bakker, M. Els and Xiao, Changyan and Stolk, Jan and Reiber, Johan H.C. and Stoel, Berend C.}, |
title |
= {Automatic Lung Lobe Segmentation of COPD Patients using Iterative B-Spline Fitting}, |
booktitle |
= {SPIE Medical Imaging: Image Processing}, |
editor |
= {Haynor, D.R. and Ourselin, S.}, |
address |
= {San Diego, CA, USA}, |
series |
= {Proceedings of SPIE}, |
volume |
= {8314}, |
pages |
= {83140W}, |
month |
= {February}, |
year |
= {2012}, |
} |
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