NDLI: /sup 18/F-FDG PET images segmentation using morphological watershed: a phantom study

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Author	Tylski, P. Bonniaud, G. Decenciere, E. Stawiaski, J. Coulot, J. Lefkopoulos, D. Ricard, M.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Inst. Gustave Roussy, Villejuif (Tylski, P.; Bonniaud, G.)
Abstract	Segmentation of $^{18}F-FDG$ PET images could be helpful for delineation of tumor volume in radiotherapy and patient follow-up. The most commonly implemented method on clinical workstations is maximum intensity thresholding, which is inappropriate for heterogeneous uptakes. Our aim was to develop and evaluate a more sophisticated segmentation method, based on the morphological watershed. We developed a segmentation method taking into account PET images characteristics. We evaluated it first on phantom images, using an integrated PET/CT unit and taking CT images as reference images. To simulate tumors in a background activity, we used 6 homogeneous spheres of various volumes in a cylindrical phantom and 3 heterogeneous cylinders in an anthropomorphic phantom. The quality of segmentation was evaluated in terms of volume, shape and position. We compared the results with a maximum intensity threshold segmentation method fitting the volume, taken as reference segmentation. A quantitation analysis completed the phantom study. For both phantom acquisitions, the segmentation obtained with the watershed based algorithm gave satisfying results with the index integrating volume, shape and position. Results considering this index were not significantly different from the reference segmentation (p > 0.5). Errors of volume recovery reached 18% for watershed segmentation. The quantitation analysis on phantoms highlighted partial volume effect, with an error of activity concentration measurement on segmented images ranging between 42% and 51%. Performances of the watershed method evaluated in this study were comparable with an optimized segmentation on phantom images. The quantitation recovery of PET regions with this method was similar with to other segmentation methods.
Starting Page	2063
Ending Page	2067
File Size	456541
Page Count	5
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ISBN	1424405602
ISSN	10957863
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354319
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-10-29
Publisher Place	USA
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Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Image segmentation Imaging phantoms Positron emission tomography Neoplasms Computed tomography Shape Workstations Anthropomorphism Image analysis Volume measurement
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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