NDLI: A Segmentation Algorithm for Quantitative Analysis of Heterogeneous Tumors of the Cervix With <sup>18 </sup>F-FDG PET/CT

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Author	Wei Mu Zhe Chen Wei Shen Feng Yang Ying Liang Ruwei Dai Ning Wu Jie Tian
Copyright Year	1964
Abstract	As positron-emission tomography (PET) images have low spatial resolution and much noise, accurate image segmentation is one of the most challenging issues in tumor quantification. Tumors of the uterine cervix present a particular challenge because of urine activity in the adjacent bladder. Here, we propose and validate an automatic segmentation method adapted to cervical tumors. Our proposed methodology combined the gradient field information of both the filtered PET image and the level set function into a level set framework by constructing a new evolution equation. Furthermore, we also constructed a new hyperimage to recognize a rough tumor region using the fuzzy c-means algorithm according to the tissue specificity as defined by both PET (uptake) and computed tomography (attenuation) to provide the initial zero level set, which could make the segmentation process fully automatic. The proposed method was verified based on simulation and clinical studies. For simulation studies, seven different phantoms, representing tumors with homogenous/heterogeneous-low/high uptake patterns and different volumes, were simulated with five different noise levels. Twenty-seven cervical cancer patients at different stages were enrolled for clinical evaluation of the method. Dice similarity coefficients (DSC) and Hausdorff distance (HD) were used to evaluate the accuracy of the segmentation method, while a Bland-Altman analysis of the mean standardized uptake value (SUVmean) and metabolic tumor volume (MTV) was used to evaluate the accuracy of the quantification. Using this method, the DSCs and HDs of the homogenous and heterogeneous phantoms under clinical noise level were 93.39 ± 1.09% and 6.02 ± 1.09 mm, 93.59 ± 1.63% and 8.92 ± 2.57mm, respectively. The DSCs and HDs in patients measured 91.80 ± 2.46% and 7.79 ± 2.18 mm. Through Bland-Altman analysis, the SUVmean and the MTV using our method showed high correlation with the clinical gold standard. The results of both simulation and clinical studies demonstrated the accuracy, effectiveness, and robustness of the proposed method. Further assessment of the quantitative indices indicates the feasibility of this algorithm in accurate quantitative analysis of cervical tumors in clinical practice.
Sponsorship	IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Page Count	15
File Size	1811646
Starting Page	2465
Ending Page	2479
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00189294
Volume Number	62
Issue Number	10
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-01-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Tumors Positron emission tomography Image segmentation Level set Bladder Computed tomography Mathematical model Fuzzy-C-Means (FCM) Cervical tumor segmentation PET/CT Images improved level set method Positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) images
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Biomedical Engineering

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