Lung field segmentation from thin-slice CT scans in presence of severe pathology

Ingrid C. Sluimer; Meindert Niemeijer; Bram van Ginneken

doi:10.1117/12.535312

12 May 2004 Lung field segmentation from thin-slice CT scans in presence of severe pathology

Ingrid C. Sluimer, Meindert Niemeijer, Bram van Ginneken

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Proceedings Volume 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535312
Event: Medical Imaging 2004, 2004, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Conventional methods for the segmentation of lung fields from thorax CT scans are based on thresholding. They rely on a large grey value contrast between the lung parenchyma and surrounding tissues. In the presence of consolidations or other high density pathologies, these methods fail. For the segmentation of such scans, a lung shape should be induced without relying solely on grey level information. We present a segmentation-by-registration approach to segment the lung fields from several thin-slice CT scans (slice-thickness 1 mm) containing high density pathologies. A scan of a normal subject is elastically registered to each of the abnormal scans. Applying the found deformations to a lung mask created for the normal subject, a segmentation of the abnormal lungs is found. We implemented a conventional lung field segmentation method and compared it to the one using non-rigid registration techniques. The results of the algorithms were evaluated against manual segmentations in several slices of each scan. It is shown that the segmentation-by-registration approach can successfully identify the lung regions where the conventional method fails.

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Ingrid C. Sluimer, Meindert Niemeijer, and Bram van Ginneken "Lung field segmentation from thin-slice CT scans in presence of severe pathology", Proc. SPIE 5370, Medical Imaging 2004: Image Processing, (12 May 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.535312

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