Title :
3D general lesion segmentation in CT
Author :
Jolly, Marie-Pierre ; Grady, Leo
Author_Institution :
Imaging & Visualization Dept. Princeton, Siemens Corp. Res., Princeton, NJ
Abstract :
This paper describes a general purpose algorithm to segment any kind of lesions in CT images. The algorithm expects a click or a stroke inside the lesion from the user and learns gray level properties on the fly. It then uses the random walker algorithm and combines multiple 2D segmentation results to produce the final 3D segmentation of the lesion. Quantitative evaluation on 293 lesions demonstrates that the method is ready for clinical use.
Keywords :
cancer; computerised tomography; image segmentation; medical image processing; 3D general lesion segmentation algorithm; CT images; computerised tomography; multiple 2D segmentation; Cancer; Computed tomography; Image segmentation; Lesions; Liver neoplasms; Lymph nodes; Lymphatic system; Metastasis; Monitoring; Volume measurement; Cancer Imaging; Lesion Segmentation;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2002-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2003-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541116