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| Title: | A preliminary study on the knowledge-based delineation of anatomical structures for whole body PET-CT studies | Authors: | Wen, L Leung, W Eberl, S Feng, DD Bai, J |
Issue Date: | 2008 | Source: | Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Application in Biomedicine, in conjunction with The 2nd International Symposium & Summer School on Biomedical and Health Engineering : May 30-31, 2008, Shenzhen, China, p. 112-115 (CD) | Abstract: | PET-CT imaging has shown its superiority in the clinical management of cancer. The markedly increased amount of imaging data have given rise to the development of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) to aid the clinician in the interpretation of large volumes of data. The delineation of anatomical structures is one of the major components of CAD. Currently, the majority of segmentation methods are focused on the segmentation of organs and tissues using high-contrast anatomical images such as high-dose CT with injected contrast agent. However, typically low-dose CT protocol without the use of contrast agent are used in PET-CT studies, which leads to low-contrast CT images with a relatively high level of noise. This study investigated the potential of using information extracted from the co-registered PET-CT data in the segmentation of anatomical structures. A preliminary knowledge-based system was developed to process eight clinical PET-CT studies for lung cancer. The results of qualitative and quantitative analysis demonstrate the efficiency of incorporating the information derived from co-registered structural and functional images in the segmentation of anatomical structures for whole body PET-CT studies. It also implies that the methods relying on the HU value, like thresholding, are incapable of accurately delineating those organs suffering from high-level noise with unclear boundary. Further investigation using advanced technologies are warranted to achieve accurate segmentation for PET-CT imaging. | Keywords: | Cancer Computerised tomography Image segmentation Lung Medical image processing Positron emission tomography |
Publisher: | IEEE | ISBN: | 978-1-4244-2255-5 | DOI: | 10.1109/ITAB.2008.4570549 | Rights: | © 2008 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. |
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